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Discover LudwigThe phrase "stiff as a" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone or something that is very rigid, inflexible, or unyielding in their behavior or attitude. Example: Despite her young age, the ballet dancer's body was stiff as a board from years of strenuous training.
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I'd be stiff as a board".
It's as stiff as a corpse.
He fell on his face as stiff as a post.
It's a world stiff as a principle: /glitter drills both.
The men lift him, stiff as a corpse.
But taxes on alcohol should be as stiff as a good gin.
I am seated in the basket of the sled, as stiff as a quartered moose.
Only the archaic collar, stiff as a porcelain dish, returns the picture to the 17th century.
"That bum rose, stiff as a stick; he didn't bend a knee or move an arm.
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Auchterlonie encourages campus conservatives to drop the stiff-as-a-board ultraconservative attire.
Of course, techno fabrics have been much transformed since that first generation of sweaty, wrinkle-free shirts and stiff-as-a-board trousers that men understandably rejected.
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