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definition

a spur to keep your prick inside your tent expression or saying

Essentially nonsense

Origin

Wilful corruption of the line:
I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent
…from Shakepeare’s Macbeth

Collector

M & N – 2010s
Mark & Naomi

Notes

In full:
I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself
And falls on th’other
— Macbeth 1.7

Submitted: 28/01/2025 by Mark

any thoughts?

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