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sticking to someone's ribs

sticking to someone's ribs is the present participle and gerund of stick to someone's ribs.

Meaning of stick to someone's ribs

Verb

stick to someone's ribs (third-person singular simple present sticks to someone's ribs, present participle sticking to someone's ribs, simple past and past participle stuck to someone's ribs)

  1. (idiomatic) To be filling, especially due to having a heavy meaty or glutinous consistency.
    • When I came to the cold lunch and fried breakfast poor Evans' face fell; he evidently doesn't much believe in the virtue of food, unless it is in the form of a hoosh and has some chance of sticking to one's ribs.1905, Robert F. Scott, The Voyage of the Discovery, Volume 2 (2014 Cambridge University Press edition), p. 274 (Google books)

Questions about sticking to someone's ribs

What is sticking to someone's ribs the present participle and gerund of?
Sticking to someone's ribs is the present participle and gerund of stick to someone's ribs.

Words near sticking to someone's ribs in the dictionary

  1. sticking to one's guns
  2. sticking to one's knitting
  3. sticking to one's last
  4. sticking to one's post
  5. sticking to one's text
  6. sticking to someone's ribs
  7. sticking together
  8. Sticking Tommy
  9. sticking up
  10. sticking up for
  11. sticking with

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