| Kline's Pete is a stick-in-the-mud businessman, but likable in his haplessness. |
| Is this exquisite stylist and literary innovator a hopelessly old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud? |
| Every conservationist is in danger of being labelled reactionary, a stick-in-the-mud, backward-looking. |
| So why then, if he is doing all of this, is he criticised almost universally for being a stick-in-the-mud? |
| I've no doubt he's an old stick-in-the-mud at times, but he's also the head of your chapter. |
| But this was Meg, the most stubborn, stick-in-the-mud that Val knew of, and someone who hated any type of fuss being made. |
