sticking place

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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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Origin of sticking place

First recorded in 1570–80

Words nearby sticking place

stick figure, stick float, stickful, stickhandle, stickhandler, sticking place, sticking plaster, sticking point, stick in one's craw, stick insect, stick-in-the-mud

How to use sticking place in a sentence

But while I screwed my courage to the sticking place and sought to hold it there, the pause became a keen-edged agony.
The Master of Appleby|Francis Lynde
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
Macbeth “screwed his courage up to the sticking-place” indeed, and then and there was the end of the life of Duncan.
ZigZag Journeys in Northern Lands;|Hezekiah Butterworth
At the appointed hour next morning, the young man, screwing up his courage to the sticking-place, knocked at the door of Oaklands.
Crestlands|Mary Addams Bayne

But as he again approached with courage screwed to the sticking-place, a spruce hansom dashed up before him.
The Argosy|Various