There's a difference between a good healthy posture and an uptight ramrod.
We are sick and tired of people using the climate to ramrod more taxes down our throats.
Her body is perfectly balanced, she holds herself straight, and yet in nothing suggests a ramrod.
The army lolls and longs for the shade, of which some get a hand's breadth, from a shelter tent stuck upon a ramrod.
Maybe it's the top-gun lingo and ramrod driving posture.
She stands ramrod straight and beautiful, her hair pulled back in a bun.
He sketched a hasty portrait of a wasted crone with a scornful grimace and a ramrod spine.
As she sings, her lean, serpentine body turns ramrod stiff and her voice takes on a new visceral charge.
Of average height, stout of build, he walked with feet turned out and back straight as a ramrod.
If a ramrod makes a mistake, he can't fix it because the shot is over in less than a thousandth of a second.
British Dictionary definitions for ramrod
ramrod
/ˈræmˌrɒd/
noun
1.
a rod for cleaning the barrel of a rifle or other small firearms
2.
a rod for ramming in the charge of a muzzle-loading firearm
Word Origin and History for ramrod
n.
1757, literally "a rod used in ramming" (the charge of a gun), from ram (v.) + rod. Used figuratively for straightness or stiffness from 1939, also figuratively for formality, primness (ramroddy is in Century Dictionary, 1902). The verb is 1948, from the noun. Related: Ramrodded; ramrodding.