sticking point

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noun

a point, detail, or circumstance causing or likely to cause a stalemate or impasse: The bill would have gone through the Senate quickly but for one sticking point.

sticking place(def 1).

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stickful, stickhandle, stickhandler, sticking place, sticking plaster, sticking point, stickit, stickle, stickleback, stickler, stickler syndrome

Origin of sticking point

First recorded in 1820–30

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Examples from the Web for sticking point

I plucked up my courage to the sticking-point, and stuck my patient.
Continental Monthly, Vol. I, No. V, May, 1862|Various
He knew that every project would be pulled up short at this sticking-point.
Roger Ingleton, Minor|Talbot Baines Reed
The twin ex-Judge-Advocates, at length, brace each other up to the sticking-point and venture on an appeal to the public.
The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt|David Miller DeWitt
A mere variety can never establish a sticking-point in the forward course of evolution, but each new sport affords one.
Finger Prints|Francis Galton

Alexander had held to the sticking-point the quailing energies of spent men for more than six agonized hours.
A Pagan of the Hills|Charles Neville Buck

British Dictionary definitions for sticking point

sticking point

noun

a problem or point on which agreement cannot be reached, preventing progress from being made

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