stick in

I ask an old man with grey hair and a stick in his hands how old he is.

"The vision of those men sticks in my head - white faced men covered in blood and snow and a horrible isolated location like that, they were dumped there."

"As you get older," she said during our recent "Salon Talks" conversation, "more actresses just say, I don't want to do this anymore.' And if you just stick in there, you get some parts."

They evaluate and grade every player, and for up-and-comers trying to stick in the league, any opportunity to line up against starters are valuable tests.

But Conservative MP Neil O'Brien said the pay hike would "stick in the craw" of people worried about immigration and crime.