stick-in-the-mud-and-die-slowly

Updated: May 17, 2025

"All those damned stick-in-the-mud-and-die-slowly tradespeople: Ruck, the butcher, Marbel, the grocer. Snape! Gord! George, HOW they'll grin!" I thought him over in the next few weeks, and I remember now in great detail the last talk we had together before he handed over the shop and me to his successor.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - Tono Bungay