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stiff as a board

adj

Definitions

  1. Very stiff.

    • The rigidity of the corpse was excessive; after about two hours and a half it was stiff as a board.
    • His stiff-as-a-board tranditionally ^([sic]) masculine good looks and constrained, stiff-upper lipped portrayal of Ed was a wonderful contrast to Fierstein's androgonous ^([sic]), physically mobile Arnold.

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