make stick
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The cases of the week involving two-bit schemers and has-beens are easy enough to make stick.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2023
In both cases, the prosecutors pursued not the most serious charge, but the one they could most make stick.
From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2019
Then how is it that so many have found the charge so easy to make, and make stick?
From Time ● Oct. 31, 2016
Brought into the Leeds academy by Stuart Lancaster, the man who now coaches him for England, Care had his next choice to make: stick with his hometown club, or risk sinking in a bigger pond.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2014
He should promise nothing which he cannot make stick.
From The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 by United States. Dept. of Defense
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