stiff as a board 的定义
- Also, stiff as a poker. Inflexible, rigidly formal, unbending, as in This cloth is stiff as a board; what happened to it? or There he stood, stiff as a poker, unwilling to give an inch. The board in the first simile for rigidity is a slab of wood; the second, alluding to the iron implement used to push around logs in open fires, dates from the late 1700s.
stiff as a board 近义词
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stiff as a board 的近义词 46 个
- arthritic
- creaky
- rigid
- solid
- stark
- tense
- thick
- tight
- wooden
- brittle
- buckram
- firm
- refractory
- rheumatic
- set
- annealed
- benumbed
- cemented
- chilled
- congealed
- contracted
- fixed
- frozen
- graceless
- hardened
- immalleable
- impliable
- incompliant
- indurate
- inelastic
- mechanical
- numbed
- ossified
- petrified
- resistant
- solidified
- starched
- starchy
- steely
- stony
- taut
- unbending
- unflexible
- ungraceful
- unsupple
- unyielding
stiff as a board 的反义词 16 个
更多stiff as a board例句
- Meanwhile, almost exactly 30 years after the trial, the judge left his home to board a steamboat and was never heard from again.
- ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?
- Chérif was arrested in Paris in January 2005 as he was about to board a plane to Damascus along with a man named Thamer Bouchnak.
- Ney said McDonnell needs to “keep a stiff lip” and stay in close contact with family members.
- On his eighth try, more than three decades after he went in, the parole board finally voted to release Sam.
- The Spaniards captured two schooners, having on board 22 officers and 30 men, all of whom were hanged or sent to the mines.
- She had just left the wharf at Cincinnati for Louisville, with 225 passengers on board, of whom but 124 were saved.
- Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.
- But there was a breeze blowing, a choppy, stiff wind that whipped the water into froth.
- The patache was never seen again, and there is not much doubt that it was lost with all hands on board.