| 单词 | wild horses couldn't drag me |
| 释义 | wild horses couldn't drag meNothing could induce or persuade me, as in Wild horses couldn't drag me to that nightclub. This idiom, always in negative form, is believed to have replaced wild horses couldn't draw it from me, referring to the medieval torture of using horses to stretch a prisoner and thereby force a confession. [First half of 1800s] Words nearby wild horses couldn't drag mewild ginger, wild goose, wild-goose chase, wild-headed, wild honeysuckle, wild horses couldn't drag me, Wild Hunt, Wild Huntsman, wild hyacinth, wild hydrangea, wild indigo The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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