PHRASE EXPLAINED
TO egg someone on — meaning to urge or dare someone to do something wrong or dangerous. The idiom first appeared in the mid-1500s and comes from the Old Norse word eddja, meaning to provoke.
TO egg someone on — meaning to urge or dare someone to do something wrong or dangerous. The idiom first appeared in the mid-1500s and comes from the Old Norse word eddja, meaning to provoke.