Usage of "stick-in-the-mud"

каталонский

cançoner

испанский

simplón

Someone who moves slowly.

cançoner

(Used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned.

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Examples for "plodder"

He was what you might call a plodder-youmight call him that. 
 Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 

There's nothing brilliant about me, dear-I'ma plodder, feeling my way along. 
 His Family 

I couldn't see a flat-cap so I approached the nearest plodder. 
 Class of 88 

Nevertheless, he was himself no plodder when plodding had ceased to be necessary. 
 Famous Americans of Recent Times 

I realize this portrays you as the romantic figure and me as the plodder. 
 The story of edgar sawtelle 

The slowpoke cast a furtive glance at the nearby entrance door. 
 Dark rivers of the heart 

But first they have to get the little slowpoke up here. 
 Black house 

In fact, it's going to be us slowpoke humans who really slow the process down. 
 Ashes Of Victory 

I waited for her to call me "slowpoke" or "snail face" or something. 
 The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb 

You rise from the monitor with a reckless, risky plan already congealing in your slowpoke brain. 
 Internecine 

I am an old slowcoach, and your scheme makes me tremble. 
 More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 / A Record of His Work... 

Ferreting is a business generally transacted without hustle, and the keeper was a noted slowcoach. 
 Lines in Pleasant Places: Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler 

What is more, it made Chris Tavaré up the other end look a bit of a slowcoach. 
 The Guardian 

Come on, slowcoach, get moving, can't you? 
 Another life altogether: a novel 

But in this new family animation Turbo, we see an evolutionary process in Hollywood's sentimental admiration for the slowcoach underdog. 
 The Guardian 

Использование термина stick-in-the-mud на английском

But what do those stick-in-the-mud, living people know about modern convenience, huh? 
 Wired 

Oh, you are getting to be an old man, you stick-in-the-mud. 
 Breeder 

Even stick-in-the-mud lawyer Portia Bellefleur was peeking around her conservative beau to study Mickey. 
 Dead as a doornail 

I was once a stick-in-the-mud Halloween refusenik. 
 The Guardian 

Naomi and Ginny exchanged the sort of glances which culinary sophisticates exchange in the presence of stick-in-the-mud louts. 
 Crown of Slaves 

We'll see how all your little fans and their stick-in-the-mud parents like reading about how you got me pregnant. 
 Public secrets 

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. 
 Indecent suggestion 

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. 
 Reuters 

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You are likely to be regarded as a bit of a stick-in-the-mud. 
 The South African 

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You are likely to be regarded as a bit of a stick-in-the-mud today. 
 The South African 

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. 
 Confessions of a wall street analyst: a true story of inside inf... 

You're both sticks-in-the-mud, she tells me. 
 Lit: a memoir 

'But we are stick-in-the-muds,' said the Lecturer in Recent Runes. 
 Raising Steam 

It gets so stuffy in here and I'm sure we don't want people thinking of us as being stick-in-the-muds.' 
 Raising Steam 

Or is it stick-in-the-muds? 
 Lit: a memoir 

And he did dub me 'Sir Stick-in-the-Mud,' moreover, for which I do owe him a grudge and will requite him. 
 A Boy's Ride 

Translations for stick-in-the-mud

каталонский

cançoner maimó ganso tortuga tocatardà

испанский

simplón parado torpe lentorro

Язык интерфейса

Значения термина stick-in-the-mud на английском