In this sentence, "you have my word that we won't stick your name on the account", what does "stick... on" mean?
My comments:
It means, Viv, you've gotten away with it. So, cheers.
When they stick a crime or just something bad on you, they mean to say you're responsible for it. In your case, you've got their word (promise) that they won't blame you for whatever it is that had happened.
Last week, in the immediate aftermath of the Virginia Tech shootings, some people apparently tried to stick it on Korea, or China, or Asia in general, all on the strength of such weak arguments that Cho Seung-Hui was an immigrant from Korea, that he was sometimes (mis)taken as Chinese, or that he's Asian-looking.
I read somewhere that a Korean retorted, quite correctly, that Cho left South Korea at the age of eight and spent most of his formative years in the States so they can't possibly stick it on Korea. Cho, who killed 33 people including himself on Virginia Tech campus on Monday, April 16, 2007, was 23.
Likewise, you can't stick it on China. At least once Cho was mistaken as Chinese. "In high school, Cho Seung-Hui almost never opened his mouth. When he finally did, his classmates laughed, pointed at him and said: 'Go back to China.'" (Va. Tech shooter a 'textbook killer', Associated Press, April 19, 2007).
Nor can you pin it on Asia. After all, almost all East Asians look the same to the less discerning American eye.
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