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stick-in-the-mud
(stick-in-the-mud)
noun
informal
a person who is dull and unadventurous and who resists change:
they see many of their colleagues as stick-in-the-muds and sentimental neanderthals
[
as modifier
]
:
the more stick-in-the-mud members objected to the name
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