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sticking point

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 ).

sticking point

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

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First recorded in 1820–30

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I quickly learned—the sticking point was, and still is, the cops.

The one sticking point was, of course, that my D-list viral celebrity as a Jeopardy!

A second sticking point is the ban on characterizing flavors.

The major sticking point is Democratic insistence on providing a path to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants.

Another sticking point is a case in New York she brought against gun manufacturers.

The twin ex-Judge-Advocates, at length, brace each other up to the sticking-point and venture on an appeal to the public.

The yellow jaw gaped, filled with blood, and the poised knife fell at his side, sticking point down in the flooring.

Alexander had held to the sticking-point the quailing energies of spent men for more than six agonized hours.

But the third night both arrived at the trysting spot with determination screwed up to the sticking point.

Nay, there are indubitable proofs that his personal courage could not always be “screwed up to the sticking point.”

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