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.
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?
A homophone for "meat" and "stick in ground" could be "meet" and "stake in ground."
meat, meet bury, berry
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."
The homophone for "to put in ground and covered with dirt" is "bury."
You could put a stake vertically in the ground and make a mark on the ground where the shadow of the top of the stake is throughout the day and year.
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").
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?
Declare your right to something It's named as such because you would put stakes in the ground to claim something.
there was lot of things at Stake. Gamblers put everything at Stake.
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Put a stake in the ground on opposite side, tether with old inner tube til it straightens.
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A homophone for "meat" and "stick in ground" could be "meet" and "stake in ground."
It is a metaphor for taking a definite stand on some issue. Perhaps an ethical matter, or a stated intention to do something.
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.