Dutch doll
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He is also likened to a navvy, a sweep, a stiff Dutch doll, and an immense feather mattress.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 24, 2012
To do this, it held its arms and legs as rigid as those of a Dutch doll and jerked them violently in the air.
From Time Magazine Archive
You are as dull as a Dutch doll, sitting there and saying nothing.
From The Sign of the Red Cross by Everett-Green, Evelyn
Henny, the Dutch doll, dragged the little square music box out into the center of the room and wound it up.
From Raggedy Andy Stories by Gruelle, Johnny
I remember specially an encounter in which the princeling with the stand-up collar and the face of a Dutch doll, whom I had met the morning before at Yulia Mihailovna's, distinguished himself.
From The Possessed (The Devils) by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
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