stick it

1. 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.

2. Also, . 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]

Example Sentences

“I’m going to stick it out and fight.”

From Los Angeles Times

For a while, they stick together mostly to stick it to her, in defiance of the fact that contempt is the No. 1 indicator of divorce.

From Los Angeles Times

Readers who thought “The Poppy War” trilogy didn’t stick the landing, or that Rin became insufferable by the end, will be pleased that “Katabasis” does stick it, and that Alice evolves.

From Los Angeles Times

But the rewards were real if you could stick it out.

From Salon

A mere seven years into his marriage, Vance argued people should be “doggedly determined to stick it out” in marriage, no matter if it’s “unhappy” or even “violent.”

From Salon