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.

Origin of sticking place

First recorded in 1570–80

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But after a few minutes he screwed his "courage to the sticking-place," and went up to her.
Moth and Rust
Mary Cholmondeley
Screw your courage to the sticking-place, / And we'll not fail.
Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources
James Wood
Evidently, he was endeavouring to screw his courage to the sticking-place.
Mated from the Morgue
John Augustus O'Shea
If he had ever wished to hang himself, he never could succeed in screwing his courage up to the sticking-place.
Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 3.
Samuel Warren
She taunted him as being a coward, and told him to “screw his courage up to the sticking-place, and he would not fail.”
ZigZag Journeys in Northern Lands;
Hezekiah Butterworth