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

Her curt weekly directive was to take one from the pile and stick it in wrapping paper.

From The Wall Street Journal

I read the paperback so often and so hard that I wore off the cover and had to stick it back on with tape.

From The Wall Street Journal

Stern decided to stick it out.

From The Wall Street Journal

Then “you can stick it into your algorithm and max out the score,” one of the people said.

From The Wall Street Journal

“I don’t know how else to explain it. I just thought I was gonna wear white because it will move everything through me. Nothing will stick. It’s almost like you want to be a vessel and you want everything to move through you.”

From Los Angeles Times