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Meanings of stick-in-the-mud in English
(Used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned.
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Examples for "plodder"
Examples for "plodder"
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He was what you might call a plodder-youmight call him that.
2
There's nothing brilliant about me, dear-I'ma plodder, feeling my way along.
3
I couldn't see a flat-cap so I approached the nearest plodder.
4
Nevertheless, he was himself no plodder when plodding had ceased to be necessary.
5
I realize this portrays you as the romantic figure and me as the plodder.
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The slowpoke cast a furtive glance at the nearby entrance door.
2
But first they have to get the little slowpoke up here.
3
In fact, it's going to be us slowpoke humans who really slow the process down.
4
I waited for her to call me "slowpoke" or "snail face" or something.
5
You rise from the monitor with a reckless, risky plan already congealing in your slowpoke brain.
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I am an old slowcoach, and your scheme makes me tremble.
2
Ferreting is a business generally transacted without hustle, and the keeper was a noted slowcoach.
3
What is more, it made Chris Tavaré up the other end look a bit of a slowcoach.
4
Come on, slowcoach, get moving, can't you?
5
But in this new family animation Turbo, we see an evolutionary process in Hollywood's sentimental admiration for the slowcoach underdog.
Usage of stick-in-the-mud in English
1
But what do those stick-in-the-mud, living people know about modern convenience, huh?
2
Oh, you are getting to be an old man, you stick-in-the-mud.
3
Even stick-in-the-mud lawyer Portia Bellefleur was peeking around her conservative beau to study Mickey.
4
I was once a stick-in-the-mud Halloween refusenik.
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Naomi and Ginny exchanged the sort of glances which culinary sophisticates exchange in the presence of stick-in-the-mud louts.
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We'll see how all your little fans and their stick-in-the-mud parents like reading about how you got me pregnant.
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She didn't want the Bluestocking people to think she was a dull, joyless stick-in-the-mud who had no appreciation for more sensual pleasures.
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Kelly Radner is not your typical stick-in-the-mud movie wife trying to get her immature husband to quit messing with the frat boys.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You are likely to be regarded as a bit of a stick-in-the-mud.
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You are likely to be regarded as a bit of a stick-in-the-mud today.
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All they knew was that Dan Reingold and Megan Kulick were pain-in-the-ass, stick-in-the-mud analysts who were messing up Merrill's deal flow in a big way.
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You're both sticks-in-the-mud, she tells me.
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'But we are stick-in-the-muds,' said the Lecturer in Recent Runes.
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It gets so stuffy in here and I'm sure we don't want people thinking of us as being stick-in-the-muds.'
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Or is it stick-in-the-muds?
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And he did dub me 'Sir Stick-in-the-Mud,' moreover, for which I do owe him a grudge and will requite him.