Question

Stick-in-the-Mud a person with old-fashioned ideas who avoids anything new, ignores progress, and fights change

Accepted Answer

We wanted a giant-screen TV, but Dad said the little one was good enough. What a stick-in-the-mud. Although the idea behind this idiom goes back at least 500 years, the exact phrase "stick-in-the-mud" was first heard in the early 1700s. It probably came from the image of a wagon stuck in the mud. Soon people started describing a dull, overly careful person as a "stick-in-the-mud."

Idiom	Stick-in-the-Mud
Example	We wanted a giant-screen TV, but Dad said the little one was good enough. What a stick-in-the-mud.
Meaning	a person with old-fashioned ideas who avoids anything new, ignores progress, and fights change
Origin	Although the idea behind this idiom goes back at least 500 years, the exact phrase "stick-in-the-mud" was first heard in the early 1700s. It probably came from the image of a wagon stuck in the mud. Soon people started describing a dull, overly careful person as a "stick-in-the-mud."

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