stick it to the man

Language: en

Meaning: (intransitive,idiomatic,informal)To take someactionintended todefya source ofoppressionsuch asglobalization,commercialization,big businessorgovernment(on the large scale) or individual leaders andauthoritiesliketeachers,bosses,police, orpoliticians.Paula not only told her boss that she quit but also told him to shut up. Way tostick it to the man!2023September 24, Carole Cadwalladr, “‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech”, inThe Observer‎[1],→ISSN:What could be more delightful than a trip to Greece to meet Yanis Varoufakis, the charismatic leftwing firebrand who tried tostick it to the man, AKA the IMF, EU and entire global financial order?

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