Idiom
Stuffed shirt.
A stuffed shirt is a person who is very serious or formal.
Dictionary
stuffed shirts
noun
Plural of stuffed shirt
Exact(41)
You ask: Who cares if richies lose their stuffed shirts?
Half the congregants filling the pews at church are almost literally stuffed shirts.
The judges larking back, eager to show they were not stuffed shirts.
The patrons the other evening were mostly stuffed shirts and pearl-clad mannequins.
If they wanted stuffed shirts, we'd be preparing for an October debate with Mitt Romney".
You start to hear ghosts talking and they're funny ghosts, not stuffed shirts.
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The politicians he's attacking are required to be serious, both the Tory stuffed shirt and the young female Labour upstart, who is dryly funny in private but can't risk showing it in public.
The desirable form retreated nearer the bone, and bones in motion at that, after most of a century of woman as immobile, corset-sculpted upholstery and man as stuffed shirt.
For her candor and with-it-ness, Lorelai is rewarded with a daughter who is morally upright though hardly a stuffed shirt -- a self-possessed girl of 18 who has thus far preserved her chastity.
Well, don't dry clean your stuffed shirt just yet, because we'll have plenty of party games and activities, giveaways and fun surprises.
When she came back out, with all the attention correctly on Kvitova, she sat quietly while being occasionally consoled by one or another All-England Club stuffed shirt.
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