stick up one's ass

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stick up one's ass

  1. (Canada, US, vulgar, derogatory, figuratively) A stiff, stern, uptight, or humorless manner.
    have a stick up one's ass
    • 2009, Don Nigro, Gorgons and Other Plays, →ISBN, page 47:
      My parents [] had been decently off at some time in the past, but all that remained by the time I came along was a certain New Englandy Puritan sense of respectability. [] I've inherited it. As much as I've tried to fight it, when you're born with a stick up your ass, you die with a stick up your ass.
    • 2014, Jay Giles, chapter 1, in Moneymoon's End, →ISBN:
      President Adrian Kantor, whom [] Sandy often referred to as a "prissy do-gooder with a stick up his ass," credited Sanderson & Dunn with his swift ascent from the House to the Senate to the White House.
    • 2015, Tara Mills, chapter 2, in Going Solo, →ISBN:
      He was too straight-laced to appreciate piercings and tattoos. If he could manage to keep future comments to himself, she wouldn't have any reason to mention the stick up his ass.

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