Stiff Neck

The kid blushed, and for the life of me I can't think how I had the nerve to say it, with a stiff-neck like Albert, but the favour I won with this boy was going to be important, after all - you can't have too many princely friends - and I thought a Flashy touch was in order. ❋ Geoff Barbanell (2010)

Not a big, serious muscle that would put me in bed, but one that is about the severity of a stiff-neck, impeded a couple of inches below (and apparently running up behind) my left shoulder blade. ❋ Deep_bluze (2005)

I first saw Star Wars from the "stiff-neck" seats - you know, the ones where you get whiplash and crossed-eyes from trying to follow the action on a screen that feels as if it were an appendage surgically attached to the tip of your nose! ❋ Unknown (2007)

She wanted to draw attention to the slightest stiff-neck or giddiness she had managed to get afflicted with. ❋ Unknown (2003)

"You want to maintain your image as an old stiff-neck who wouldn't be caught dead helping a subhuman jengali fall and break her skull." ❋ Cook, Glen (1999)

Byron might have turned in his grave at having his dissolute stiff-neck so wrung for him by misquotation. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

Ernie, he braces himself by grippin 'a chair-back and makes a stab at recoverin' his usual stiff-neck pose. ❋ Sewell Ford (1907)

En de stiff-neck sinners 'll be smotin' all fru -- ❋ Frederick Stuart (1881)

The tight-chest, stiff-neck, rigid-muscle, can’t-breathe thing that serves as a constant reminder that Something Bad is on its way. ❋ ROBIN WASSERMAN (2009)

Those demands included barring South Africa and Rhodesia from the Olympics, the hiring of black coaches and officials on the U.S. team, and the end of Avery Brundage’s reign as the ultimate Olympic stiff-neck. ❋ Dave Kindred (2006)

"The ACDP is disappointed by government's stiff-neck policy on ❋ Unknown (2002)

"Thrue fer ye, Master Angel!" cried Mary Ellen heartily, "sure, there's noan o 'the stiff-neck about ye, an' ye'll git yer fill av oysters an 'cake fer that, mark my words! ❋ Mazo De La Roche (1920)

They were going this very night to Bruchhausen, to get gold from the old stiff-neck of Stargard, so that the bargain might be concluded next day. " ❋ Wilhelm Meinhold (1824)