1971: John Alfred Williams & Charles F. Harris, Amistad 1, p257
“[…] When you’re a Trinidadian Creole Brahmin, it ain’t easy for people like that to really give you stick. They just don’t know where to catch hold, see what I mean?”
1985: Richard Holmes, Firing Line, p153
There were buggers with spiked hats, lying in the fields like sheep. We gave them stick when they came on: then some bastard shot me in the head, and I went back up the road with the walking wounded.
1989: Nicholas Salaman, Forces of Nature, p168
“You’re probably right”, she sighed. “Mr Aylott always gives me stick if I get anything too nice. It goes too quickly. Still, don’t suppose it matters if we’re selling up to [COMPETITOR NAME].”
2004: Stan Krasnoff, Krazy Hor: An Autobiography, p157
Straight from the kick-off Support Company were giving us stick, their forwards were pushing us all over the paddock and within minutes came our worst-case scenario: a try close to the sticks. To the roar of the Support Company supporters and the collective groan from the Charlie Company stalwarts, the try was converted. We were down 7–6.
2005: Alexander Thynn, A Degree of Instability: The Oxford Years Bk. 4, p205
In fact he chided me at one point for informing [C] about what he had said, declaring that she had then given him stick about it.
