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It's a reference to a person or thing that moves slowly. 'You have to drive a steak in the ground to see Tom move.'.
It's a reference to staking a claim for property. Putting your stake in the ground means you're stake your claim. The idiom means that you're staking your claim to your idea, argument, position. "This seems like the perfect place for our store" elicits the feedback "put your stake in the ground." Is it or isn't it?
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What is a homophone for meat and stick in ground?
A homophone for "meat" and "stick in ground" could be "meet" and "stake in ground."
Put a stake in the ground?
This phrase is used figuratively to mean taking a definitive action or making a firm decision about something. It suggests commitment and resolve in a particular course of action.
What does the idiom at stake mean?
The idiom "at stake" means that something important or valuable is at risk or in question. It implies that the outcome of a situation will have significant consequences.
What is a homophone for soft four mixture and stick in the ground?
A homophone for "soft four" is "soar." A homophone for "mixture" is "mystery." A homophone for "stick in the ground" is "stake in the ground."
What is an homophone for meat and stick in the ground?
meat, meet bury, berry
What does Octavius mean in Julius Caesar when he says 'We are chained to the stake'?
he means that he has a chain attached to him, which is attached to a stake presumably in the ground.
What is meant by earthing?
The same as 'grounding' , putting a wire or metal stake into the ground so something attached to it has the same electrical potential
What does it mean to be burnt at stake?
To be "Burnt at the Stake" is to be tied to a piece of wood pounded in the ground (A "Stake") and to be lit on fire. Burning at the stake is is when someone is tied to a wooden stake and the stake is set on fire. You burn to death.
A pointed wooden stick to be driven in to the ground?
A tent-peg. A spike. A stake.
What you mean by stake?
What is mean by Stake
What is the difference between stake and steak and how are they related?
Steak is cooked beef and a stake is something you put in the ground (it could also mean odds, as in "the stakes are high").
What does stake mean?
A stake is a strong metal, plastic, or wooden stick with a pointed end often driven into the ground. Stakes hold down tents for example.
What is a 5 letter that means a pointed wooden stick to be driven into the ground?
stake
What does stake claim mean?
Declare your right to something It's named as such because you would put stakes in the ground to claim something.
What a pointed wooden stick to be driven into the ground?
A stake
What is a pointed wooden stick to be driven into the ground?
A stake
Can you make a sentence with the word stake?
When I attend the yearly Renaissance Faire, I love to partake in a nice "Steak-On-A-Stake". I would not like to be burned at the stake for that answer. Be careful that you don't trip over that stake in the ground.
