Words Matter with Kel Richards: The origins of ‘sticky beak’

Wordsmith and broadcaster Kel Richards reveals the origins of the phrase ‘sticky beak’. “The nice thing about ‘sticky beak’ is it’s an Australian coinage – we came up with this one,” Mr Richards told Sky News host Steve Price. “It just comes from the fact that beak for a long time has been a synonym for nose and so it just attacks those people who stick their noses in where we don’t want them to stick them.”