stick it! excl.
(orig. US) a derog. reply to a question, i.e. ‘What shall I do with this?’, or in response to an opinion with which one disagrees; thus tell someone where to stick it v.
Front Page Act I: mccue: You’re going to miss a swell hanging, Hildy. hildy: Yeah? you can stick it. | ||
Billy Bennett’s Third Budget 29: She’d jump out of bed, sling pots at his head, / While the neighbours cried, ‘Stick it, Jerry’. | ‘The Street of a Thousand Lanterns’||
Popular Dict. Aus. Sl. 71: Stick it!, a contemptuous ejaculation. | ||
From Here to Eternity (1998) 42: If somebody had of told me that six months ago I’d of told him to take it and stick it. | ||
Teems of Times and Happy Returns 36: I told him where to stick his lime-washing job. | ||
Maledicta 1 (Summer) 15: The disposition of unwanted objects is quite a problem. In the old days one said to hell with it! and that was that. Nowadays a person may be told to stick it or stuff it, or plainly to stick it up your ass—and holler fire! | ||
Puberty Blues 51: Oh the old perv. Bishop can stick it. | ||
🎵 Been giving you grief, tell him to stick it. | ‘Ticket’||
Guardian 14 July 7: A bankrupt airline pilot who told his wife to ‘stick it’ when she asked for his contribution [...] was yesterday refused a share of a £3.6m jackpot win. | ||
Birthday 88: And if you didn’t like it after a week could tell the gaffer where to stick it. |
In exclamations
a general dismissive excl.; less frequently as a v.
Babbitt (1974) 191: Bad luck, old dear, and you can stick your job up the sewer! | ||
Corvallis Gaz.-Times (OR) 10 Apr. 2/2: We fancy Charlie will tell them to take their dinner party and stick it up the sewer. | ||
Buckaroo’s Code (1948) 125: What Harriman and his outfit did about keeping Broken Ring up you could stick in your eye. | ||
Current Sl. I:3 7/1: Stick it in the ear, v. Go to hell. | ||
Eve. Sun (Baltimore, MD) 30 Aug. 27/3: If you must smoke, stick it in your ear! | ||
Honolulu Advertiser (HI) 18 Aug. 12/2: ‘I’m sorry, too, that she is telling people to “stick it in your ear”’. | ||
Santa Fe New Mexican (NM) 30 Oct. 73/2: ‘We’re not saying go stick it in your ear or that kind of stuff’. | ||
News Leader (Staunton, VA) 20 July C5/1: ‘Aww, go stick it in your ear!’. | ||
Moniter (McAllen, TX) 27 May B13/6: ‘It was a big deal to him. If he wins, he’ll stick it in your ear’. |
an excl. of contempt, dismissal; less frequently as a v.
‘Bollocky Bill the Sailor’ 🎵 But if there should be an inquest? / Stuff the inquest up your arse. | ||
Inventions of the March Hare in Ricks (1996) 307: Take up my good intentions with the rest / And then for Christ’s sake stick them up your ass. | ‘The Triumph of Bullshit’||
Anecdota Americana I 107: ‘Pardon, lady, yer change,’ says I. But she says, ‘Stick the change up yer arse.’. | ||
Gas-House McGinty 52: Stick it up your a--, Lapp said. | ||
World to Win 61: Then spake a hard-faced pauper, / Springing up from where he sat: / ‘Ye kin take yer Christmas pudding, sir, / And go stick it up yer pratt!’. | ||
in Limerick (1953) 14: His wife said, ‘Oh, stuff / That philosophy guff / Up your ass, dear, and throw me a screw!’. | ||
‘The Airman’s Discharge Song’ in Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 187: You can stick the Air Force up your arse. | ||
From Here to Eternity (1998) 179: When my time comes they can stick their pension up their ass before I’ll fawn to get it. | ||
Ginger Man (1958) 165: I told the manager to stuff his kip up his hole. | ||
AS XXXIX:2 117: The phrase cram (sometimes stick) it up your ass will result by another abbreviatory process in cram it or in up yours. | ‘Problems in the Study of Campus Sl.’ in||
Thief’s Primer 74: I told my uncle to take that drilling rig and stick it in his ass, and just walked off. | ||
Garden of Sand (1981) 102: ‘Stick it up your ass! Up your ass!’ the parrot croaked. | ||
Catching Up 16: He had a vague image of [...] Mrs. Johnson-McDonald telling him to stuff his excuses up his arse. | ||
(con. 1930s) Loner 37: Most of the Europeans were much more vocal [...] ‘Stick it up your arse’. | ||
Q&A 45: ‘Stick your finger up your ass, you fuckin’ scumbag before I break—’. | ||
Maledicta 1 (Summer) 15: The disposition of unwanted objects is quite a problem. In the old days one said to hell with it! and that was that. Nowadays a person may be told to stick it or stuff it, or plainly to stick it up your ass—and holler fire! | ||
Union Dues (1978) 353: If Paris Green sent you [...] tell him he can stuff it up and break it off. | ||
Up the Cross 35: ‘So jam that up your kybers, babies’. | (con. 1959)||
Dict. of Invective (1991) 28: stick it (or stuff it) up your ass. A most contemptuous suggestion, usually expressed as an emphatic rejection of another person, plan, or idea; for emphasis stick it up your ass and holler fire. | ||
Fatty 219: ‘How do you like the score-board now, Fearnley? - stick that up your backside!’. | ||
(con. 1970) Dazzling Dark (1996) II i: They can stuff their jobs up their holes. | Danti-Dan in McGuinness||
Filth 222: He can stick it up his bouffant erse. | ||
Indep. on Sun. Rev. 22 Aug. 15: He was ‘the same, I’m always the same, and people don’t like that they can just stick it up their ass’. | ||
Robbers (2001) 184: If you happen to find it just stick it up your butt. | ||
Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 199: stick it up your arse. |
a general excl. of dismissal, abuse.
(con. 1950s) Unit Pride (1981) 317: I’ll tell you what to do with your court-martial. Take it and tuck it up your ass sideways. | ||
Yes We Have No 348: I told them to stick it up their arse sideways. |
(US) a general excl. of dismissal, abuse.
Courier-Post (Camden, NJ) 21 Dec. 22/4: ‘My name’s osgood, damn you!’ ‘All right. Take your name and stick it up your chimney and go to hell’. | ||
Asbury park Press (NJ) 25 Dec. 39/5: To the purveyors of political correctness [...] I say, ‘Strick it up your chimney’. |
(Aus.) a general expression of disdain, dismissal, rejecting the previous speaker’s idea, opinion, insult etc.
DSUE (8th edn) 1152/2: since late 1830s. | ||
Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 199: stick it up your arse/cunt/ginger/gunga, etc Dismissive remark. ANZ. |
see under jacksie n.1
an excl. rejecting the previous speaker’s idea, opinion, insult etc.; also occas. as v.
[song title] Umpa Lumpa Stick It Up Your Jumper. | ||
Sun. Post (Lanarks.) 18 Nov. 4/2: A double-decker bus stopped. the conductress shouted ‘One only please!’ Man and dog got on, but the conductress rebuked him. ‘I said one only!’ Man and dog got off, man shouting, ’Stick the bus up your jumper!’. | ||
Shiralee 29: They can stick their pensions up their jumper. | ||
Andy 262: Dag got up. ‘And you can stick a Bondi tram right up your jumper.’. | ||
Burn 28: You can take the mill and stuff it right up your jumper. Sideways. | ||
Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 203: stuff it up your jumper! Get lost! Do what you like. ANZ. |