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.

The Sky Writer 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.

Darkside in September..storytellersunplugged...plugged... 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!

YesButNoButYes: The first time I saw Star Wars 2007

She wanted to draw attention to the slightest stiff-neck or giddiness she had managed to get afflicted with.

Time Regained 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."

Water Sleeps Cook, Glen 1999

Byron might have turned in his grave at having his dissolute stiff-neck so wrung for him by misquotation.

An Englishwoman's Love-Letters Anonymous

Ernie, he braces himself by grippin 'a chair-back and makes a stab at recoverin' his usual stiff-neck pose.

Torchy and Vee Sewell Ford 1907

En de stiff-neck sinners 'll be smotin' all fru --

Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser 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.

Crashed ROBIN WASSERMAN 2009

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

Crashed ROBIN WASSERMAN 2009