The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sticking \Stick"ing\, a. & n. from Stick, v.
Sticking piece, a piece of beef cut from the neck. [Eng.]
Sticking place, the place where a thing sticks, or remains fast; sticking point.
But screw your courage to the sticking place,
And we'll not fail.
--Shak.
Sticking plaster, an adhesive plaster for closing wounds, and for similar uses.
Sticking point. Same as Sticking place, above.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of sticking-place English)
Usage examples of "sticking place".
Screwing her courage to the sticking place, she switched off her headlamp to save the batteries.
Folk who made their living by guarding the wealth of others couldn't safely shelter a thief, but there was no sticking place in Tiep's memory for the moral lessons they tried to teach him.
He was going to have to pry Roxie from her sticking place, and by less gentle means than he'd tried thus far.
He poked the scalpel into his thigh and left it quivering in the muscle - the muscle being a convenient sticking place for the scalpel.