"stick to someone's ribs" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sticks to someone's ribs",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sticking to someone's ribs",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stuck to someone's ribs",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stuck to someone's ribs",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "stick<,,stuck> to someone's ribs"
      },
      "expansion": "stick to someone's ribs (third-person singular simple present sticks to someone's ribs, present participle sticking to someone's ribs, simple past and past participle stuck to someone's ribs)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1905, Robert F. Scott, The Voyage of the Discovery, Volume 2 (2014 Cambridge University Press edition), p. 274 (Google books)",
          "text": "When I came to the cold lunch and fried breakfast poor Evans' face fell; he evidently doesn't much believe in the virtue of food, unless it is in the form of a hoosh and has some chance of sticking to one's ribs."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, Charlotte MacLeod, The Grub-and-Stakers Spin a Yarn (2012 Open Road edition), ch. 12 (Google preview)",
          "text": "Those two mincemeat tarts hadn't stuck to his ribs the way he'd thought they would."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 April 14, Ashley Edds, “7 Tasty Slow-Cooker Vegetarian Dinners Even Meat Eaters Will Love”, in women.com, retrieved 2017-04-27",
          "text": "I've been trying to find a way to incorporate more vegetarian dishes into my everyday rotation, and to be honest, it's been hard to find something hearty and that sticks to my ribs, that's also meat free.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be filling, especially due to having a heavy meaty or glutinous consistency."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "filling",
          "filling"
        ],
        [
          "meaty",
          "meaty"
        ],
        [
          "glutinous",
          "glutinous"
        ],
        [
          "consistency",
          "consistency"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, of food) To be filling, especially due to having a heavy meaty or glutinous consistency."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of food"
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "adjective"
          ],
          "word": "stick-to-your-ribs"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "satigi"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "ravita"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "tenir au corps"
        }
      ]
    }
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      "tags": [
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    }
  ],
  "word": "stick to someone's ribs"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sticks to someone's ribs",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sticking to someone's ribs",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stuck to someone's ribs",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stuck to someone's ribs",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "tags": [
        "adjective"
      ],
      "word": "stick-to-your-ribs"
    }
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        "English verbs",
        "Translation table header lacks gloss"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1905, Robert F. Scott, The Voyage of the Discovery, Volume 2 (2014 Cambridge University Press edition), p. 274 (Google books)",
          "text": "When I came to the cold lunch and fried breakfast poor Evans' face fell; he evidently doesn't much believe in the virtue of food, unless it is in the form of a hoosh and has some chance of sticking to one's ribs."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, Charlotte MacLeod, The Grub-and-Stakers Spin a Yarn (2012 Open Road edition), ch. 12 (Google preview)",
          "text": "Those two mincemeat tarts hadn't stuck to his ribs the way he'd thought they would."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 April 14, Ashley Edds, “7 Tasty Slow-Cooker Vegetarian Dinners Even Meat Eaters Will Love”, in women.com, retrieved 2017-04-27",
          "text": "I've been trying to find a way to incorporate more vegetarian dishes into my everyday rotation, and to be honest, it's been hard to find something hearty and that sticks to my ribs, that's also meat free.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be filling, especially due to having a heavy meaty or glutinous consistency."
      ],
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        [
          "filling",
          "filling"
        ],
        [
          "meaty",
          "meaty"
        ],
        [
          "glutinous",
          "glutinous"
        ],
        [
          "consistency",
          "consistency"
        ]
      ],
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        "(idiomatic, of food) To be filling, especially due to having a heavy meaty or glutinous consistency."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of food"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
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      "tags": [
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    }
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "satigi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "ravita"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "tenir au corps"
    }
  ],
  "word": "stick to someone's ribs"
}