sticking place

noun

1. Also called sticking point. the place or point at which something stops and holds firm.
2. the place in the lower part of an animal's neck where the knife is thrust in slaughtering.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sticking place¹

First recorded in 1570–80

Example Sentences

Instead, he derided his opponents for what he called their lack of “gumption,” saying that the way to get him to leave would be to ask Corbyn “to screw his courage to the sticking place and have a general election.”

From The New Yorker

I nod, try to screw my courage to the sticking place.

From Literature

Eventually, l talked myself into it, but I wouldn’t tell anybody because it was up to me to screw my courage to the sticking place, right, and go out and do it.”

From Salon

Get ready to make like Gaston and “screw your courage to the sticking place,” because Disney has revealed the first-ever image of its “Beast” from the live action adaptation of the 1991 animated classic fairy tale, “Beauty and the Beast.”

From Los Angeles Times

“It is my hope that people will go on this journey and, as a result, will search themselves and find out where in themselves they are stuck. You cannot live in America and not have some kind of a racial sticking place,” he says.

From Washington Times