Seventeen earned Johnson's " stick in the mud " or " parade raining " titles by denying the proclamation request.
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She has also been described as " Responsible Lousie " who " was a bit of a stick in the mud ".
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Critics described him as overly cautious, a stick in the mud rather than a groundbreaker, whose buildings veered to the conventional, even the cliched.
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Goldstar was generally depicted as an antithesis to Lobo-kind, decent, clean-cut and generally a stick in the mud as far as Lobo was concerned.
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By comparison, the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index was a real stick in the mud : its six-month gain was merely the 12th best in its history.
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By comparison, the Standard & AMP; Poor's 500-stock index was a real stick in the mud : its six-month gain was merely the 12th best in its history.
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Still, in many ways, Chenoweth was playing against stereotypes about religious women and striving to make her screen namesake " not judgmental " and not " a stick in the mud ."
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The B-sides included the songs " Stick in the Mud, " " Sitting Beside Myself, " and " Sucker . " The song " Vegetable Kingdom " became a minor radio hit regionally.
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The idea is to make Clinton's vetoes _ the only weapon the president has against being rolled by a GOP congressional majority _ seem like evidence he is a stick in the mud.
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But that challenge misses the point : Stick-in-the-mud derives from the verbal phrase to stick in the mud ( or, in some obsolete variants, in clay or briers or mire ), not from the noun stick.
