stiff as a board

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Adjective

stiff as a board (not comparable)

1. (simile) Very stiff.
   • 1858, The London Lancet, page 408:

     The rigidity of the corpse was excessive; after about two hours and a half it was stiff as a board.

   • 1981 December 12, Andrea F. Loewenstein, “Gay Theatre Verité”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 10:

     His stiff-as-a-board tranditionally ^[sic] masculine good looks and constrained, stiff-upper lipped portrayal of Ed was a wonderful contrast to Fierstein's androgonous ^[sic], physically mobile Arnold.