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

Given the myriad risks facing investors these days — from high valuations in the stock market to worries about an AI bubble and beyond — some might be tempted to take their money out of the market and stick it under the mattress, or at least in a savings account.

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Later, he showed his daughter a pad and demonstrated how she should stick it onto her pants and suggested she have a test drive of one.

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So let’s stick it to the billionaires!

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It was a way, also, to stick it to the British government, which found itself cornered into taking in 80,000 Asian refugees at a time when racial tension was growing in Britain.

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

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