| 释义 |
mud sticksDisparaging or malicious allegations are difficult to disprove or shake off: it would be easy to dismiss the story as a clumsy smear attempt, but mud sticks...- After suffering a week of intensely personal attacks on his character, he denied lying but confessed to a fear that mud sticks nonetheless.
- The campaign is careful to distance itself from the comments and apologised, but election-watchers know that mud sticks.
- These "explanations" are usually preposterously contorted exercises but as long as the mud sticks they serve their purpose.
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