have the short end of the stick Idiom, Proverb

carrot and stick

promising to reward or punish someone at the same time The government took a carrot and stick approach to the people who were illegally protesting against the construction of the dam.

dipstick

a person who seems to be stupid, dimwit When Todd is nervous, he acts like a dipstick - like a fool.

fiddlesticks

oh no, darn, nuts, rats, shucks Fiddlesticks! I forgot to get the mail!

have sticky fingers

be a thief He was fired because of his sticky fingers at the cash register.

more than you can shake a stick at

a lot, too many, oodles Alfreda has more cats than you can shake a stick at - over 30!

shake a stick at

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short end (of the stick)

unfair, unequal treatment He always gets the short end of the stick when he is at work.

short end of the stick

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stick around

stay or wait nearby We decided to stick around after the game to talk for awhile.

stick in my craw

irritate me, get to me That decision really sticks in my craw. How could he sell Gretzky?

have the abbreviate end of the stick

To accept a disadvantage or accountability as a aftereffect of some diff or arbitrary aftereffect or treatment. With tighter deadlines and bigger workloads, it anon became bright that our administration had the abbreviate end of the stick with this project. I anticipate Tom acquainted like he had the abbreviate end of the stick growing up, back his earlier brother got best of the absorption and acclaim for his able-bodied skills.Learn more: end, have, of, short, stick

short end of the stick, to get/have the

To lose out; to get beneath than one is advantaged to. Exactly what affectionate of stick is actuality referred to is no best known, but possibly it is one acclimated in angry or in a tug-of-war, in which the being captivation the best end has the advantage. “He accepting gotten (as we say) the bigger end of the staffs, did wrest our wills at his pleasure,” wrote Thomas Jackson in 1626 (Commentaries aloft the Apostles Creed). Around the about-face of the twentieth aeon in America, “the abbreviate end” of annihilation came to beggarly the inferior part, and anon this was accumulated with “stick” to crop the accepted cliché. Learn added wrong end of the stick.Learn more: end, get, have, of, short, to

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