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Also, stick up for . Side with, defend, as in Paul always stands up for what he thinks is right , or Ginny has learned to stick up for her family . The first recorded use of the first term is by Shakespeare in King Lear (1:2), when Edmund, Gloucester's bastard son, says: “Now gods, stand up for bastards!” The colloquial variant was first recorded in 1837.

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