stick it

Idioms  

1. Continue what one is doing, endure something to the end, as in I hate large parties but I promised her I'd stick it to the end . [Early 1900s] Also see stick out , def. 2.

2. Also, . Do whatever you like with it, I don't want it, as in Do that job all over again? Why don't you stick it? , or Tell the chef he can take this fish and shove it up his ass . This vulgar slangy idiom, which uses stick in the sense of “thrust inward or upward,” also functions as a variant of up yours . [Second half of 1800s]

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Example Sentences

McLean said he would advise any young male ballet dancers who feel out of place to "stick it out".

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026

You can call cobalt a base metal, or stick it with uranium in special metals.

From Barron's • Dec. 26, 2025

At the same time, we see the advantages that marrying would confer — say if we were to just send in the paperwork and then stick it in a file somewhere.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 10, 2025

It was a way, also, to stick it to the British government, which found itself cornered into taking in 80,000 Asian refugees at a time when racial tension was growing in Britain.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

They all looked the same to me, but he’d stare at one and throw it away, nod at another and stick it in his pocket.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff