kiss the rod

To accept punishment passively. As a child, I always found it best to just kiss the rod—arguing with my parents always made the situation worse.See also: kiss, rod

kiss the rod

accept punishment meekly or submissively. This idiom refers to a former practice of making a child kiss the rod with which it was beaten. It is used by Shakespeare in Two Gentlemen of Verona: ‘How wayward is this foolish love That, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse And presently all humbled kiss the rod’.See also: kiss, rod

单词	kiss the rod
释义	kiss the rod kiss the rod To accept punishment passively. As a child, I always found it best to just kiss the rod—arguing with my parents always made the situation worse.See also: kiss, rod kiss the rod accept punishment meekly or submissively. This idiom refers to a former practice of making a child kiss the rod with which it was beaten. It is used by Shakespeare in Two Gentlemen of Verona: ‘How wayward is this foolish love That, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse And presently all humbled kiss the rod’.See also: kiss, rod
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