take some stick

take some stick
get/take [a lot of/some etc.] stick British, informal, British, informal to be criticized or laughed at because of something that you do.

I get a lot of stick from people at work over the way I dress.

(often + from)

The government has come in for a lot of stick from the press over its handling of the crisis.


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