stick up for

Idioms and Phrases

see stand up for .

Example Sentences

“White people can’t stick up for themselves? You’re racist.”

From Los Angeles Times

You either allow men to walk all over you and talk all over you, or you learn really quickly and very aggressively to stick up for yourself.

From BBC

This was a kid who, if he saw his friends being bullied, he was going to stick up for them.

From Slate

Someone who would stick up for you.

From Literature

The implication is that they would either stick up for one another or opportunistically kindle their own fires.

From Seattle Times

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