英语词汇“stuckinthemud”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. to be stuck in the mud: to be unable to progress or develop, either through adverse circumstances, or through a resistance to change; (now) esp. to be unprogressive or unadventurous. Also (usually hyphenated) stuck-in-the-mud adj. Cf. stick-in-the-mud adj. and n.

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1711 G. Cary Physician's Phylactic 85 Here Dr. T. is so closely fixed, and stuck in the Mud, that he can't rise beyond the Horizon of Sense.

1830 Olio 24 July 62/1 When a person is in difficulties, he is said to be ‘stuck in the mud’.

1904 Arizona Republican 17 June 5/4 (advt.) If you eat plenty of it [sc. cereal] you won't have those stuck-in-the-mud days when everything seems to be going backward instead of forward.

1957 Portsmouth (Ohio) Times 14 Dec. 11/1 The cold war..has placed the United States in the same stuck-in-the-mud position that it accuses the Soviet Union of holding.

1990 M. C. Reed in Chairing Math. Sci. Dept. 1990s ii. 18 I am continually amazed at the resistance..to experimentation with the curriculum... We really are stuck in the mud.

2016 Sun (Nexis) 6 Aug. (TV Mag.) 66 If someone changes their mind..I can get pretty stuck in the mud: ‘We had a plan, we're sticking to the plan.’

单词	stuckinthemud
释义	> see also also refers to : stuck-in-the-mudn. > as lemmas stuck-in-the-mud b. to be stuck in the mud: to be unable to progress or develop, either through adverse circumstances, or through a resistance to change; (now) esp. to be unprogressive or unadventurous. Also (usually hyphenated) stuck-in-the-mud adj. Cf. stick-in-the-mud adj. and n. ΚΠ 1711 G. Cary Physician's Phylactic 85 Here Dr. T. is so closely fixed, and stuck in the Mud, that he can't rise beyond the Horizon of Sense. 1830 Olio 24 July 62/1 When a person is in difficulties, he is said to be ‘stuck in the mud’. 1904 Arizona Republican 17 June 5/4 (advt.) If you eat plenty of it [sc. cereal] you won't have those stuck-in-the-mud days when everything seems to be going backward instead of forward. 1957 Portsmouth (Ohio) Times 14 Dec. 11/1 The cold war..has placed the United States in the same stuck-in-the-mud position that it accuses the Soviet Union of holding. 1990 M. C. Reed in Chairing Math. Sci. Dept. 1990s ii. 18 I am continually amazed at the resistance..to experimentation with the curriculum... We really are stuck in the mud. 2016 Sun (Nexis) 6 Aug. (TV Mag.) 66 If someone changes their mind..I can get pretty stuck in the mud: ‘We had a plan, we're sticking to the plan.’ extracted from stickv.¹ < see also as lemmas
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