Perhaps that's why he was replaced 60 years ago by the Archers - less likely to come to a sticky end.
One former monk of Cleeve rose to prominence and came to a sticky end.
The king himself gives more attention to his personal pleasures, and comes to a sticky end.
Are you risking a sticky end as a boiled frog?
People who used magic without knowing what they were doing usually came to a sticky end.
Some poor creature about to come to a sticky end, I imagine.
In real time, an astronaut who fell into a black hole would come to a sticky end.
Closer examination showed it to be a human arm, white bone protruding from its sticky end.
Jackie meets a sticky end, when he is stabbed by Terry.
The scheme had worked perfectly, but its author almost came to a sticky and premature end.
Idiomy