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Frozen stuck cant move synonym9/3/2023 ![]() ![]() PS: This answered the Q by Christian Geiselmann, which explicitly allowed an expression as an answer. Methods include vehicle headlights and handheld spotlights Violations authorities will investigate this deer season. Spotlighting - hunting with artificial light used to intentionallyĬapture the animal’s attention - is among the most serious hunting Spotlighting, which causes a "deer in the headlights" paralysis reaction is an illegal practice in deer-hunting. When she asked me to marry her, I could only stand there like a deer He froze like a deer in the headlights when I caught him taking money Mary turned into a deer in the headlights when she forgot her lines in Likened to the tendency of deer to freeze in place inįront of an oncoming vehicle. Someone caught in a state of paralyzing surprise, fear, orīewilderment. Anyway, people who should actually do something, but do conspicuously nothing, and you describe this with irony.ĭeer in the headlights, from The Free Dictionary (Broken into short paragraphs to avoid indigestible glop of text): Or take German car makers who seem to be paralyzed by daily new revelations of their fraudful schemes. If you need a context: imagine, for example, a newspaper article describing a dangerous international situation, and the White House is unable to do anything meaningful due to inner confusion (I make this up, nothing real is intended here). These expressions seem to be mere descriptions of an actual state of shock, and I feel they lack the expressive power of German in Schockstarre verfallen (which evoces the picture of a motionless beetle or other funny animal). I tried to find adequate expressions in English but what I found so far seems too normal, not pointed enough to me: Second, the word is used to picturesquely desribe a similar state in humans usually ironically. The word is used, first, to discribe the state some animals fall into when under threat, for example a beetle may have such a condition - not moving, apparently dead, so that a predator would hopefully turn away disinterested. I am searching for a nice, possibly picturesque and idiomatic way of expressing in English what Germans call Schockstarre - being paralyzed by fear. What would be a single word that has more intensity than scared or shocked.Ī word that can convey the figurative meaning of "he turned to stone". During these transitions, you may be unable to move. It occurs when a person passes between stages of wakefulness and sleep. ![]() He almost turned to stone and could not move. Sleep paralysis is a feeling of being conscious but unable to move. His friends called him Bart and the name has stuck (= has become the name that everyone calls him).I am not able to find an appropriate word to fill in for "scared".The police couldn't make the charges stick (= show them to be true).stick doing something John can't stick living with his parents. ![]() The problem is, my mother can't stick my boyfriend.They’re always arguing-I can’t stick it any longer.stick something/somebody I don't know how you stick that job.(British English, informal) (usually used in negative sentences and questions ) to accept a difficult or unpleasant situation or person synonym stand.I got sick of my boss's moaning and told him he could stick the job.somebody can stick something (informal) used to say in a rude and angry way that you are not interested in what somebody has, offers, does, etc. ![]()
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