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Meanings of stick-in-the-mud in inglés
(Used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned.
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Examples for "mossy"
Examples for "mossy"
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Damp and mildew had left large mossy areas on their veranda floor.
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The ashes of the dead had been strewn upon the mossy plains.
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A girl sat on the mossy river-bank in the dappled, golden sunlight.
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The trunks of the old trees were big and rough and mossy.
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From the heart of the agate the mossy landscape comes dreaming out.
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The London club's approach has been too stodgy to date, after all.
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However, he moves from the flee-flowing Warriors to the stodgy, forward-based Sharks.
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They bore no resemblance to the stodgy side seen at the Velodrome.
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The stodgy old man answer is no, it is not a need.
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He might call me various unflattering things, but not stodgy-notwith truth.
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But his scheme received no encouragement from the old-fogyish authorities.
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Why, Jenny, I hae heard that Robert Leslie once spoke o' the house o' John Callendar & Co. as 'old fogyish!'
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It breeds about Derali, Bairamghati, and Gangaotri, in the large moss-grown deodars.
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The stream was perhaps eight feet across, spanned by a moss-grown footbridge.
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I have a nice garden but it is untidy, moss-grown- adilettantegarden.
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Soon he was gliding along the sides of the moss-grown walls.
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On the two moss-grown pillars, reposed the well known crest of his family.
Usage of stick-in-the-mud in inglés
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But what do those stick-in-the-mud, living people know about modern convenience, huh?
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Oh, you are getting to be an old man, you stick-in-the-mud.
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Even stick-in-the-mud lawyer Portia Bellefleur was peeking around her conservative beau to study Mickey.
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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.