stiff as a board

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stiff as a board 的定义

  1. 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.

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stiff as a board

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更多stiff as a board例句

  1. Meanwhile, almost exactly 30 years after the trial, the judge left his home to board a steamboat and was never heard from again.
  2. ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?
  3. 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.
  4. Ney said McDonnell needs to “keep a stiff lip” and stay in close contact with family members.
  5. On his eighth try, more than three decades after he went in, the parole board finally voted to release Sam.
  6. The Spaniards captured two schooners, having on board 22 officers and 30 men, all of whom were hanged or sent to the mines.
  7. She had just left the wharf at Cincinnati for Louisville, with 225 passengers on board, of whom but 124 were saved.
  8. Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.
  9. But there was a breeze blowing, a choppy, stiff wind that whipped the water into froth.
  10. The patache was never seen again, and there is not much doubt that it was lost with all hands on board.