"stick up one's ass" meaning in English

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          "text": "have a stick up one's ass",
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          "ref": "2009, Don Nigro, Gorgons and Other Plays, page 47",
          "text": "My parents […] had been decently off at some time in the past, but all that remained by the time I came along was a certain New Englandy Puritan sense of respectability. […] I've inherited it. As much as I've tried to fight it, when you're born with a stick up your ass, you die with a stick up your ass.",
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          "ref": "2014, Jay Giles, chapter 1, in Moneymoon's End",
          "text": "President Adrian Kantor, whom […] Sandy often referred to as a \"prissy do-gooder with a stick up his ass,\" credited Sanderson & Dunn with his swift ascent from the House to the Senate to the White House.",
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          "ref": "2015, Tara Mills, chapter 2, in Going Solo",
          "text": "He was too straight-laced to appreciate piercings and tattoos. If he could manage to keep future comments to himself, she wouldn't have any reason to mention the stick up his ass.",
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          "word": "pickle up one's ass"
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          "code": "fi",
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          "word": "tiukkapipoinen"
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          "sense": "stiff, uptight or humorless manner",
          "word": "avoir un balai dans le cul"
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          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "stiff, uptight or humorless manner",
          "word": "mieć kija w dupie"
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      "word": "pickle up one's ass"
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      "word": "tiukkapipoinen"
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      "sense": "stiff, uptight or humorless manner",
      "word": "avoir un balai dans le cul"
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      "sense": "stiff, uptight or humorless manner",
      "word": "mieć kija w dupie"
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