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sticking place
noun
- Also called sticking point. the place or point at which something stops and holds firm.
- the place in the lower part of an animal's neck where the knife is thrust in slaughtering.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sticking place1
First recorded in 1570–80
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Example Sentences
But while I screwed my courage to the sticking place and sought to hold it there, the pause became a keen-edged agony.
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She taunted him as being a coward, and told him to “screw his courage up to the sticking-place, and he would not fail.”
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Macbeth “screwed his courage up to the sticking-place” indeed, and then and there was the end of the life of Duncan.
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At the appointed hour next morning, the young man, screwing up his courage to the sticking-place, knocked at the door of Oaklands.
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But as he again approached with courage screwed to the sticking-place, a spruce hansom dashed up before him.
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