screw your courage to the sticking-point
1Sticking point — Sticking Stick ing, a. & n. from {Stick}, v. [1913 Webster] {Sticking piece}, a piece of beef cut from the neck. [Eng.] {Sticking place}, the place where a thing sticks, or remains fast; sticking point. [1913 Webster] But screw your courage to… …
2sticking point — sticking place, sticking point The phrase sticking point is first recorded in 1826, and in its common modern meaning ‘the limit reached of progress, agreement, etc.’ not until the 1960s. The allusion is to a line in Shakespeare s Macbeth… …
3Sticking — Stick ing, a. & n. from {Stick}, v. [1913 Webster] {Sticking piece}, a piece of beef cut from the neck. [Eng.] {Sticking place}, the place where a thing sticks, or remains fast; sticking point. [1913 Webster] But screw your courage to the… …
4Sticking piece — Sticking Stick ing, a. & n. from {Stick}, v. [1913 Webster] {Sticking piece}, a piece of beef cut from the neck. [Eng.] {Sticking place}, the place where a thing sticks, or remains fast; sticking point. [1913 Webster] But screw your courage to… …
5Sticking place — Sticking Stick ing, a. & n. from {Stick}, v. [1913 Webster] {Sticking piece}, a piece of beef cut from the neck. [Eng.] {Sticking place}, the place where a thing sticks, or remains fast; sticking point. [1913 Webster] But screw your courage to… …
6Sticking plaster — Sticking Stick ing, a. & n. from {Stick}, v. [1913 Webster] {Sticking piece}, a piece of beef cut from the neck. [Eng.] {Sticking place}, the place where a thing sticks, or remains fast; sticking point. [1913 Webster] But screw your courage to… …
7sticking place — sticking place, sticking point The phrase sticking point is first recorded in 1826, and in its common modern meaning ‘the limit reached of progress, agreement, etc.’ not until the 1960s. The allusion is to a line in Shakespeare s Macbeth… …
8sticking place — noun 1. : the place where something stops and sticks fast screw your courage to the sticking place Shakespeare 2. : the place or point in the neck of an animal where the knife is stuck in slaughtering * * * 1. Also called sticking point. the… …
9sticking-place — noun The point at which a process or thing, especially a state of mind or emotion, reaches its greatest strength and remains steadfast; sticking point. But screw your courage to the sticking place …
10literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …
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