Sentence examples for be stiff as a from inspiring English sources

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I'd be stiff as a board".

Add a tremendous bass line and boisterous lyrics threatening physical harm, and suddenly Foreigner and M.O.P. sound as if they're in cahoots: "Stop him if you could (You're as cold as ice)/ And you'll be stiff as a log, in a suit, looking nice".

Most of the time, you don't want to be stiff as a stick, as it can do some damage to your knees and generally ruin the natural flow of tap dance.

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Your neck may be stiff as well.

I tried to smile, even though my back was stiff as a board from sleeping on a rock-hard mattress at the only nearby motel with a vacancy six months before visiting weekend.

"I am getting tired of when our key guys come back in the game, they're stiff as a board, like they're so cold," Coach Jeff Van Gundy said of his starters.

The Knicks somehow struggled to outlast the Heat, 83-74, afterwardward Van Gundy said he was "getting tired of when we bring guys back in the game, they're stiff as a board".

On In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad) she sings: "I've seen Daddy's hands break open and bleed / And I've seen him work till he's stiff as a board / An' I've seen momma laying in suffer and sickness / In need of a doctor we couldn't afford / Anything at all was more than we had / In the good old days when times were bad".

You're stiff as a ramrod!"(Session n°4, 29′)  Speed "Accelerate!

"You are stiff as a board," Snowdy told me as I tried to aim.

Suddenly, I look down, and I'm stiff as a corpse.

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