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stick it

  1. Also, stick it or shove it up one's ass . Do whatever you like with it, I don't want it, as in Do that job all over again? Why don't you stick it? , or Tell the chef he can take this fish and shove it up his ass . This vulgar slangy idiom, which uses stick in the sense of “thrust inward or upward,” also functions as a variant of up yours . [Second half of 1800s]

  2. Continue what one is doing, endure something to the end, as in I hate large parties but I promised her I'd stick it to the end . [Early 1900s] Also see stick out , def. 2.



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Nonetheless, under current court interpretation of federal law, Maine should prevail if the state can stick it out, said Rothstein and several other critics of the Trump administration.

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"I know what I can't do", he said, suggesting officers stick it "where the sun don't shine" before lighting a cigarette and looking away.

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So we’re willing to stay and stick it out — but then what?

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Stick it out long enough, and they’ll turn on their own allies, start fighting among themselves, turn tail and run away.

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“They decided to to stick it out and went to sleep that night, and then woke up at 3 in the morning with a firestorm blowing around their house and embers flying over their house,” Chapman said.

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