stick fat

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

  1. (Australia, colloquial) To persist through a difficult time.
    • 2015 Michael Whiting, "Leppa: Stick fat through the tough times" Brisbane Lions, 30 April 2015. Accessed 23 August 2018.
    • 2015 Gregor Heard, "Hybrid canola a resowing winner" Farm Online National, 19 May 2015. Accessed 23 August 2018.
      "RESEARCHERS have found even with extremely poor germination rates farmers are better ‘sticking fat’ with their canola crops rather than resowing."
    • 2018 Yvette Wroby, "Round 6 – Hawthorn v St Kilda: Sympathy and Time Out" The Footy Almanac, 30 April 2018. Accessed 23 August 2018.
      "I’m a good person for sticking fat? I’m a good person for acknowledging that even though my team seem to have completely missed all boats of skill and ability this year, I am a good person for still wearing the colours?"
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