Intermediate to advanced Nico Nico Douga Class
Yesterday: I got stuck in traffic.
1. to stick to one’s guns
to keep your position or opinion
That’s my opinion and I’m sticking to it.
2. to stick it to the man
to try get money out of the government in some way
Ex: You're the man!
3. to stick it out=to be patient, to wait
4. to be a stick in the mud
Don't be a stick in the mud!
5. carrot and stick technique
Reward and punishment used as persuasive measures, as in Management dangled the carrot of a possible raise before strikers, but at the same time waved the stick of losing their pension benefits. This term alludes to enticing a horse or donkey to move by dangling a carrot before it and, either alternately or at the same time, urging it forward by beating it with a stick. [Late 1800s]
Bonus: invulnerable
6. to stick one’s neck out:
He stuck his neck out for me.
I'm not sticking my neck out for him.
He got the wrong end of the stick.
short end of the stick, the idioms and phrases
The inferior part, the worse side of an unequal deal. For example, Helen got the short end of the stick when she was assigned another week of night duty. The precise analogy in this term, first recorded in the 1930s, has been lost. Some believe it comes from worse end of the staff, used since the early 1500s, which in the mid-1800s became, in some instances, short or shitty end of the stick, allegedly from a stick poked up one's rectum by another in command of the situation. Others believe it alludes to fighting with sticks, where having a shorter stick is a disadvantage. Also see wrong end of the stick.
He got the short end of the stick.
He drives stick.
an old shtick=an old comedy routine
Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me.
I got the short end of the stick.
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