stick fat

English

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• Rhymes: -æt

Verb

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 April 30, Michael Whiting, “Leppa: Stick fat through the tough times”, in Brisbane Lions, retrieved 23 August 2018:
   • 2015 May 19, Gregor Heard, “Hybrid canola a resowing winner”, in Farm Online National, retrieved 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 April 30, Yvette Wroby, “Round 6 - Hawthorn v St Kilda: Sympathy and Time Out”, in The Footy Almanac, retrieved 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?"