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单词 to stick it to
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to stick it to
P7. Originally and chiefly North American colloquial. to stick it to: to cause deliberate harm, discomfort, humiliation or annoyance to, esp. as a means of revenge or retaliation; (later also) to perform an act intended to defy, resist, or undermine (an authority or institution); esp. in stick it to the man (cf. man n.1 18b). [Originally perhaps with reference to the action of stabbing or piercing with a stick (see sense 1); later influenced by the idea of sticking a finger up at someone (see to stick a finger up at at finger n. Phrases 4t(a)(iii)).]
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1842 Indiana State Sentinel (Indianapolis) 17 May 2/4 The Richmond Jeffersonian..is exercising its small arms upon its neighbor... Stick it to him, Elder!
1861 Democratic Pharos (Logansport, Indiana) 13 Mar. The Democrats could not bear such cruelty and went out to mourn when the Republicans were preparing to ‘stick it to them’.
1907 Southwestern Reporter 99 636 By God, I want you to stick it to him.
1967 Belleville (Kansas) Telescope 14 Sept. 3/6 I feel better knowing that someone wasn't just sticking it to me.
1973 Oakland (Calif.) Post 18 Nov. 8 The Chiefs..proceeded to stick it to the Chicago Bears.
1995 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 2 July e4/2 It was a vicarious way of powerless people being able to stick it to the Man.
2015 S. Quinones Dreamland 90 He liked to see himself as sticking it to the Establishment, living outside the law.
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