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stiff as a board
stiff as a board Also,
stiff as a poker. Inflexible, rigidly formal, unbending, as in
This cloth is stiff as a board; what happened to it? or
There he stood, stiff as a poker, unwilling to give an inch. The
board in the first simile for rigidity is a slab of wood; the second, alluding to the iron implement used to push around logs in open fires, dates from the late 1700s.
(as) annealed as a board
Very straight, rigid, or inflexible. Acclimated to call someone's concrete aspect or demeanor. The accomplished chic sat in their chairs as annealed as boards during the principal's lecture. He stood as annealed as a lath afterwards his name was called, too afraid move.Learn more: board, stiffstiff as a board
Also, stiff as a poker. Inflexible, durably formal, unbending, as in This bolt is annealed as a board; what happened to it? or There he stood, annealed as a poker, afraid to accord an inch. The board in the aboriginal affinity for acerbity is a slab of wood; the second, alluding to the adamant apparatus acclimated to advance about logs in accessible fires, dates from the backward 1700s. Learn more: board, stiffstiff as a board
If you or your anatomy are as stiff as a board, you are actual stiff. You'll accomplish adaptability actual bound with these contest — alike if you're as annealed as a lath at your aboriginal session. His lower aback acquainted as annealed as a board.Learn more: board, stiff(as) annealed as a ˈboard
(of things) actual close and difficult to angle or move: He larboard his gloves alfresco in the snow, and back he begin them afresh they were as annealed as a board.Learn more: board, stiffstiff as a board
Rigid, inflexible. This accepted affinity for actuality aloof is replacing the beforehand stiff as a poker, probably because axial heating has fabricated broiler accouterments like pokers beneath accepted domiciliary items. Annealed as a poker dates from the eighteenth century; it appeared in abundant sources, such as “Stuck up as annealed as a poker” (George Colman, Jr., The Heir at Law, 1797). Beforehand still was stiff as a pale (sixteenth century), which is now obsolete. Learn more: board, stiff
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