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make stick
make something stick
to cause something to be accepted or agreed to Investigators didn't have the evidence to make the charges stick. Workers got a good agreement and made it stick by threatening another costly strike.
make stick
Make effective or permanent, as in They tried to appeal but our lawyers made the verdict stick. This idiom uses stick in the sense of "adhere." [First half of 1900s]