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stiff as a board en · ADJ
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(not-comparable, qualifier:simile) Very stiff.
The rigidity of the corpse was excessive; after about two hours and a half it was stiff as a board.
1858, The London Lancet, page 408: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.
1981 December 12, Andrea F. Loewenstein, “Gay Theatre Verité”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 10: