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stick-in-the-mud1852, from verbal phrase, stick (v.) on notion of "one who sticks in the mud," hence "one who is content to remain in an abject condition." The phrase appears in 1730, in city of L [..]
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stick-in-the-mud(n) someone who moves slowly(adj) (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned
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