单词 | to make stick |
释义 | > as lemmasto make (something) stick e. intransitive. Originally U.S. Of a plan, order, decision, etc.: to be complied with or implemented; to be permanently effective. Frequently in to make (something) stick. ΚΠ 1870 J. R. Lowell in N. Amer. Rev. July 173 He is the man of all others slow to admit the thought of revolution; but let him once admit it, he will carry it through and make it stick. 1885 Atchison (Kansas) Daily Globe 12 Jan. If Judge Martin's late decision sticks, the members of the Council will be individually liable for the bridges recently built. 1922 Daily Democrat Tribune (Jefferson City, Missouri) 6 Dec. 2/1 There remains just one thing—to outline a workable method for carrying out the policy and making it stick. 1942 Sun (Baltimore) 12 June 1/7 A..program of cooperation designed (1) to hasten the defeat of Germany and (2) to make that defeat stick. 1971 A. Price Alamut Ambush xii. 147 God knows whether the Americans and the Russians can make the cease-fire stick. 1987 Speedway Mail Internat. 26 Sept. 4/4 Should the worst come to the worst and this ban sticks for the full term, he fully intends to ride for Wolverhampton in 1989. 2004 Dayton (Ohio) Daily News (Nexis) 28 Dec. a8 The country's top court ordered a new one [sc. election]. That decision stuck, rather than precipitating a constitutional crisis or civil war. < as lemmas |
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