- 1老古板、掃興的人（不肯嘗新、什麼都不參加的那種）
A person who will not try anything new, will not join in, and wants everything to stay exactly as it is. Your friends want to try the new restaurant and he says let's go to the usual place; everyone is going swimming and she says she'll sit here and watch. You are calling that person boring and stubborn, so it is not a kind word — though how sharp it feels depends entirely on your voice. Said to a close friend with a smile, it is teasing. Said about someone behind their back, it is a real complaint. It is informal, spoken, and slightly old-fashioned in a comfortable way; it sounds like something a parent or would say. Note that it points at a person's whole character, not one refusal — you are saying this is what they are always like. The picture inside it is easy: think of a stick pushed into wet mud, standing there, going nowhere, while the water moves past it. The plural is 'stick-in-the-muds'.
組成Just the three everyday words stick, in, the, mud, glued together with hyphens into one noun — the whole picture becomes the name. English does this a lot: a good-for-nothing, a jack-of-all-trades, a happy-go-lucky sort. The image is of something stuck fast in mud and not moving.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- stick in the mud
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。