10 BÜCHER, DIE MIT «STICK AT NOTHING» IM ZUSAMMENHANG STEHEN
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English-Albanian Dictionary of Idioms
stick at nothing nuk ndalet para asgjeje □ 'Like you ? Of course he doesn 't like
you. He 'll stick at nothing to get you out of the way!' stick by sb qendron ne krah
te dikujt □ Her husband stuck by her in good times and bad. □ The older staff ...
Jabi-tzbebg. " Stick at Nothing" — The expression "stop at nothing" occurs in the
following couplet in Dry- den's Avrengzebe : " The world is made for the bold
impious man, Who stops at nothing, seizes all he can." And Pope, in one of his
letters ...
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Man and Wife: With Illustrations
I will stick at nothing, and Miss Silvester (as you will see by her letter) will stick at
nothing either, to set things right. Of course, I have not said one word to my
darling Blanche, who is quite happy, and suspects nothing. All this, dear Sir
Patrick, ...
Surely no Englishwoman could care for such a barber's block ; but that brut*
would stick at nothing. You can never be sure either. He can look infernally
sentimental. What blackguards Frenchmen are!" he said, again. " They don't care
whom ...
Charles Francis Keary, 1895
He will stick at nothing, ma tante, at nothing in order to gain his ten thousand
francs." "Well, my dear," rejoined Madame coldly, "we want a man who will stick
at nothing. King Louis hath no use for velvet gloves, for mincing ways, or for ...
Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy, 1917
Lord Shelburne and Charles Fox push them impetuously, though at first both
opposed them ; bat the first will stick at nothing to gratify his ambition ; and the
latter must stick at nothing, so desperate is his situation.' — vol. iii., pp. 324, 5.
Walpole ...
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The London Quarterly Review
Lord Shelburne and Charles Fox push them impetuously, though at first both
opposed them : but the first will stick at nothing to gratify his ambition ; and the
latter must stick at nothing, so desperate is his situation.' — vol. iii., pp. 224, 5.
Walpoie ...
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The prodigal son: a drama in four acts
Stick at nothing, I say — not even at dragging the man down to disgrace and
crime. OSCAR. [Almost dumfounded.] Crime ? MAGNUS. Oscar, you must tell
Helga to leave this house. OSCAR. She is my guest — I will not insult her.
MAGNUS.
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Allen's Dictionary of English Phrases
stop/stick at nothing to be prepared to take any action, however wrong or
dishonest, to achieve one's ends; to act unscrupulously. 17th cent. Aphra Behn
Love-Letters Between a Noble-Man and His Sister 1687 No, she would on to all
the ...
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The Conquest of Charlotte
Money would draw it from him if nothing else could. I had guessed that already,
and it gave me confidence. I knew how to handle a man who would stick at
nothing for the sake of money. The man, I feared, was one who would stick at
nothing to ...
David Storrar Meldrum, 1902
