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stick at nothing

VERB
mean business
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You appear to people who don't know you as a most conventional man. but you really stick at nothing and regret little.

From Time Magazine Archive

He would stick at nothing whatever!' she cried, rising to her feet, and taking her cloak from a peg in the storeroom outside the dairy.

From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Banks, Mrs. G. Linnaeus

She's a woman, and she'll stick at nothing.

From Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)

But as soon as he was safe in the hospital he began blowing his trumpet again, and said he would stick at nothing now, and that they should soon see what he would do.

From The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

"Then in such a case you will stick at nothing to plow your way out?"

From The Blind Mother and The Last Confession by Caine, Hall, Sir




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