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stick-in-the-mud

stic·kint·he·mud

uncommon

noun

1.

someone who moves slowly

  • “in England they call a slowpoke a slowcoach”

adjective

1.

(used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned

  • “moss-grown ideas about family life”

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