- screw your courage to the sticking place
- Meaning
Origin
From Shakespeare's Macbeth. Lady Macbeth: 'We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we'll not fail.'
Meaning and origin of phrases. 2013.
screw your courage to the sticking place
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But screw your courage to the sticking-place… — См. Взвинтить себя … Большой толково-фразеологический словарь Михельсона (оригинальная орфография)
but screw your courage to the sticking-place — Meaning Origin From Shakespeare s Macbeth … Meaning and origin of phrases
Sticking 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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
sticking 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… … Modern English usage
sticking 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… … Useful english dictionary
sticking-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 … Wiktionary
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 the… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Sticking 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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Sticking 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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Sticking 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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
