stick-in-the-mud

Like the husband is super funny and the wife is a stick-in-the-mud.

The way Yolanda sees it, Sam is the stick-in-the-mud who “stole” an important grant from under her nose.

In 1961 he criticized British industry as a bastion for “the smug and the stick-in-the-mud,” calling failures in manufacturing and commerce “a national defeat.”

There’s no question that Cary Grant’s serpentine charm wins out over Ralph Bellamy’s stick-in-the-mud decency, but not everyone is “sold American” on Walter Burns.

So for most of my freshman year, I remained a self-hating stick-in-the-mud.