stick like shit

English

Verb

stick like shit (third-person singular simple present sticks like shit, present participle sticking like shit, simple past and past participle stuck like shit)

  1. (slang, vulgar, simile) To be very tenacious, or be very difficult to get rid of.
    Synonym: stick like shit to a blanket
    • 2011, Howard Jacobson, In the Land of Oz, page 191:
      'But you know what a nickname is like – it sticks like shit.'
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