sticks
/stɪks/ sustantivo A2En español: campo, vallas, muletas
- rural terrain, especially a woody area; any rural region. · We had to drive way out into the sticks to visit that customer.
- Hurdles or other obstacles to be jumped over.
- crutches
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The brigadier sent for some sticks and straw, and having filled the chimney with them, set a light to it.
If anyone treads on my toes or sticks a pin into me, it doesn’t matter, for I can’t feel it.
When he failed to heal their disputes by his exhortations, he determined to give them a practical illustration of the evils of disunion; and for this purpose he one day told them to bring him a bundle of sticks.
He next opened the faggot, took the sticks separately, one by one, and again put them into his sons’ hands, upon which they broke them easily.
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