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Edited on Thu Apr-22-10 11:27 AM by NJmaverick
Well I did and a little Google work got me this
Stick in the mud - someone stuck in their ways Stick in the mud is actually a short form of the verbal phrase to stick in the mud, meaning 'stick' or 'stay' in an unpleasant or demeaning situation, rather than dragging oneself out of the metaphorical mud. To stick in the mud first appeared around 1620, and was a further development of earlier metaphors such as to stick in the briers (or clay, or mire) meaning simply 'to be in difficult circumstances'. Somewhere around the early 18th century, stick in the mud arose as a contemptuous term for someone who is not only stuck in the mud, but actually seems to enjoy being there.
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