stuck in the mud
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.02 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A variant of the children's game of touch or tag in which a tagged player stands with arms and legs apart, and people crawling under such a player cannot be tagged.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Gorbachev needed to end it because the cost of defence, rising blindly as the army ordered more and more missiles, was bankrupting the Soviet Union. Its economy, stuck in the mud and mired in congenital secrecy, couldn't cope anyway, but the burden of defence profligacy was forcing it to its knees."
- "The other studios joining the celebrations might crank up the volume, but perhaps it's the clouds louring overhead – stuck-in-the-mud creativity, uncertain revenue streams, growing global competition – that are responsible for the muted jubilation."
Usage
Inflected Forms
more stuck in the mud (comparative)
most stuck in the mud (superlative)