stick it

Idioms  

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]

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Example Sentences

Companies that are first to crack a genuinely hard problem can stick it out, keep innovating, and grow into businesses that far exceed what any acquirer would have paid.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

There are still voices in government who reckon they can keep their heads down and stick it out.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2026

You can call cobalt a base metal, or stick it with uranium in special metals.

From Barron's • Dec. 26, 2025

At the same time, we see the advantages that marrying would confer — say if we were to just send in the paperwork and then stick it in a file somewhere.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 10, 2025

He ran to the dinghy, pulled the stick it was tied to out of the ground, and began to shove the boat out into the current.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman