(as)straight as a poker/ramrod

(as)straight as a poker/ramrod身子挺得笔直：When the officer came，soldiers all stood up，as straight as a poker.当军官到来时，士兵们都起立，身子挺得笔直。

• p.s.
• captiousness
• Arpino,Gerald (Peter)
• pustulating
• permissions
• stethometer
• (be) grounded in/on sth
• myrosins
• komitadji
• tuck sth in
• bean curds
• grey matter
• bisulcate
• shortlegged
• outasight
• impetuously
• astrophysicss
• neverlands
• tendrilous
• t.a
• hyperbaric medicine
• out of contention (for sth)
• death's-head
• mezzo
• Fletcherized
• water-skied
• PABA
• typesetter
• purser
• dumbfound
• sooth to say (或 to speak, to tell)
• hoya
• overworkings
• choreics
• crayfished
• disulfides
• bundle up.
• locustlike
• envoy / ambassador / minister extraordinary
• Hudson Bay
• feast one’s eyes on
• Baha'ites
• Guggenheim Museum
• overbraking
• belladonna
• head-up display
• subpena
• be in the dock
• admit sb to fellowship
• deltoid tuberosities
• hemadsorptions
• androgenized
• XNS
• eminent
• essentialists
• money-bill
• spar decker
• the White House
• exoderms
• spinney
• pompous
• targemen
• go like hot cakes
• be in ambush
• electrocyte
• Jy.
• carragheens
• Gibbs, Sir Philip
• the quintessence of sth
• afrits
• sporangium
• crewmanship
• I'm / we're / you're talking (about) sth
• desideration
• synapticulum
• heliocentrically
• by the living jingo
• scolopendriums
• tick fevers
• amirs
• gradient circuit
• have the whip hand
• temper tantrums
• Ross Sea
• goxing
• shutter
• beastlinesses
• thermodynamic process
• gunsights
• monkey around also monkey about
• Gilliland correlation
• stereoscopic
• no way!
• give adequate consideration to
• Buchman, Frank Nathan Daniel
• Ethiopian
• Anglophiliacs
• martyry
• hygroscopic
• poplins