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stick it
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]
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.
Example Sentences
So we’re willing to stay and stick it out — but then what?
Stick it out long enough, and they’ll turn on their own allies, start fighting among themselves, turn tail and run away.
“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.
Trump, by contrast, regards the firestorm “as a political opportunity to stick it to Gavin Newsom. And to stick it to a state that didn’t vote for him,†Taylor said.
Corbet’s desire to stick it to the man takes over the film’s last stretch, which is also its flimsiest.
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