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单词 to make it stick
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to make it stick
d. intransitive. Originally U.S. Of a criminal charge: to result in a conviction; to be unable to be dismissed. Frequently in to make it stick.
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1864 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 15 Oct. 5/7 Prosecuting Attorney Landerback held that the only offense committed was assault and battery, and insisted that no other or severer complaint would ‘stick’.
1889 Columbus (Indiana) Daily Herald 17 Oct. 2/1 Campbell..showing up the wrong doing of a trusted member of the Republican campaign management which was nothing less than procuring public money by fraud and collusion, and the charge stuck, being proved true.
1929 D. Hammett Red Harvest vi. 67 Rigged right, you could make it stick in court, maybe, but you'll not get a chance to make your play there.
1932 ‘Spindrift’ Yankee Slang 58 Pin the rap on him and make it ‘stick’.
1963 ‘S. Woods’ Taste of Fears xiv. 148 ‘They couldn't make it stick,’ said his uncle, positively... ‘No evidence.’
2013 Daily Tel. 16 Apr. 25/1 Although prosecuted for allegedly forming far-Right paramilitary death squads, the charges failed to stick.
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