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The phrase "as a mule" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to describe someone as being stubborn or hardworking, similar to the characteristics often attributed to mules.
Example: "He refused to change his mind about the project, standing his ground as a mule."
Alternatives: "like a donkey" or "stubborn as a mule."
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"Stubborn as a mule.
"They've used me as a mule".
Leonora, however, is as stubborn as a mule.
Through all this, Hird stood as stubborn as a mule.
They must've used him as a mule and frightened him.
He served as a mule driver and later as an artillery surveyor.
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Might as well expect a mule to fly as me to see James Baldwin in Georgia".
The technical difficulties confronting Mr. Baratz were formidable: jarring bus rides, walks across mountain paths as narrow as a shoe, a mule lost to a mountain gorge.
Ducommun brought a mule and as much as it could carry.
So technically, by some definitions, they're not "alive"—but clearly a mule is as alive as anything else.
It was the work of cocaine traffickers who were using an Old English sheepdog as a courier -- or a mule, as a bearer of smuggled drugs is called -- to sneak five pounds of cocaine into the United States from Colombia in 1994.
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