stiff as a poker

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*stiff as a poker

rigid and inflexible; stiff and awkward. (Usually used to describe people. *Also: as ~.) This guy's dead. He's cold and as stiff as a poker. John is not a very good dancer; he's stiff as a poker.

See also: poker, stiff

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He's finished with his career and he's just been booted out of Strictly Come Dancing for being as stiff as a poker. FOXTROT OFF, JOE; BOXING FIGHTING TALK by The Mirror (London, England) My neck's as stiff as a poker with looking up in the sky all afternoon. Toon Texts by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England) But Vialli's expensively-assembled squad are more likely to be stiff as a poker before they play it. VIALLI COMES CLEAN by Walters, Mike / The Mirror (London, England)			stick on stick out stick out a mile stick out against stick out like a sore thumb stick out to stick shift stick through stick to stick to fingers stick to guns stick to knitting stick to ribs stick together stick tongue out stick up stick up for stick with stick with it stick-in-the-mud Sticks and stones may break my bones sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me sticks in the/ mind sticky stiff stiff as a poker stiffen up stigmatize as still still and all still as death still tongue makes a wise head still waters run deep stimulate into sting sting for sting with stink stink on ice stink to high heaven stink up stink with stinking stinking rich stinking with stir stir around stir into stir to stir up stir up a hornet's nest			Stiel Grenade Stiel Grenade Stiel Grenade Stieler, Adolf Stieltjes Integral Stieltjes transform Stieltjes, Thomas Jan Stiemycin Stiemycin Stiemycin Stieprox Stierling engine Stierling engine Stiernhielm, Georg sties sties sties STIET Stif Stif stiff stiff stiff stiff stiff stiff Stiff (disambiguation) Stiff (disambiguation) Stiff (disambiguation) Stiff (disambiguation) stiff as a poker stiff aster stiff baby syndrome stiff blood agar stiff blood agar stiff blood agar stiff blood agar Stiff cheddar! Stiff cheese! stiff frame stiff gentian Stiff heart syndrome stiff joint stiff lamb disease stiff leaf Stiff Leg Goat Stiff Legged Deadlifts Stiff Little Fingers stiff lung stiff lung stiff lung Stiff Lung Disease Stiff man syndrome Stiff man syndrome Stiff neck Stiff person syndrome Stiff person syndrome stiff sickness Stiff silkworm Stiff silkworm Stiff Skin Syndrome

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