stick up one's ass
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Noun
edit- (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.
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editstiff, uptight or humorless manner
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