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[eg] Pronunciation Key –verb (used with object)
| to incite or urge; encourage (usually fol. by on). |
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| egg on | |
verb | |
| urge on; cause to act; "The other children egged the boy on, but he did not want to throw the stone through the window" [syn: prod] |
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American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms - Cite This Source - Share This
egg on
Incite, urge ahead, provoke, as in Jack is always egging me on to drive faster, or Seemingly quiet, Margo actually eggs on Donald to quarrel with his staff. This expression has nothing to do with hen's eggs but comes from an Old Norse word, eggja, "to edge." Both edge on and egg on were used interchangeably, but today the latter is preferred. [c. 1200]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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