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short end of the stick 

to get the short end of the stick is to suffer the bad effects of a situation.
Good Samaritan laws exist so that people who have a desire to help don't wind up getting the short end of the stick.

I really suck at writing about myself, so in application processes that require personal statements, I really get the short end of the stick.

Up the stick 

To have a bun in the oven, up the duff, brewing a sprog, with child, in the family way, off limits, up the junction, preggers, having a nine-month fat day, knocked up etc.
Charlotte Church is up the stick.
Up the stick by EcstaticG March 21, 2007

shitty end of the stick

Phrase used to describe bad luck or victimization.
They were reorganizing our department and I got the shitty end of the stick.

carry the stick 

To suddenly be thrown out of one's living situation, to become homeless.

From the depression era and the hobo - based on the image of the hobo carrying his possessions tied in a bandanna at the end of a stick.
She can threaten to throw me out all she wants... I ain't gonna carry the stick 'cause of no woman!
carry the stick by PJ Poppyjoe November 6, 2007

The Stick 

1) A device, either given or not, used for rescuing young boys who have fallen on one's ice lawn.
2) Strong Bad and The Cheat's most favorite meeting place/hangout.
Give him the stick....DON'T GIVE HIM THE STICK!
The Stick by SpookyTree April 14, 2004

Nick the Stick 

An anorexic little shit who lives in the dirty Wu. He is a pro go carter but lost to a transgender in a race. He also can be found getting beat by his dad at night with a belt because he sucks at hokey.
Nick the stick is such a fag I played him in hokey and he started crying because he hurt his finger.