2006-08-08 05:07:18 · 8 answers · asked by cowboy_5514 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
THE CARROT AND THE STICK
Something that is offered to someone in order to persuade them to do something. The word STICK is used to refer generally to the harsher methods of persuasion. Example - The new economic policy so far is all sticks and no carrots. Liza (a young swimmer) has to be coaxed. She benefits from the carrot-and-stick approach - I say, 'right, give me a couple of good swims and you can go home early.' So She thinks she's getting out of work when she's actually putting more into it.
2006-08-08 05:16:00 · answer #1 · answered by asok c 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hmm, when I was growing up there was a health food store that had a funny sign up warning shoplifters not to even try to take anything, if I remember right. I think it said, "Shoplifters will be suspended upside down by their ankles (or toenails?) and pummeled into unconsciousness by an organic carrot." Sounds like the revenge of the very large rabbit from Wallis and Gromit's last movie, doesn't it?
Also, I believe people use the phrase "dangling a carrot" referring to old comic stereotypes of using a carrot hanging from a string to get a mule or donkey to move. One version of that is listed in the link below, and I vaguely remember it being used in "Little Rascals" movies as well. In real life, "dangling a carrot" in front of someone might refer to using an external reward to get someone stubborn to make a decision or to move forward. I saw it used in an editorial the yesterday in a Utah newspaper regarding Cuba's politics.
2006-08-08 13:56:23 · answer #2 · answered by Cookie777 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. Czech saying: "The day is coming when a single carrot freshly observed will set off a revolution."
2. Irish saying: "Never bolt your door with a boiled carrot."
3. Yiddish saying: "Only in dreams are carrots as big as bears."
2006-08-08 13:04:50 · answer #3 · answered by kae 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People's lives are controlled by sticks and carrots, as if they were donkeys.
2006-08-08 12:19:04 · answer #4 · answered by mickurahul 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They go together like peas and carrots.
2006-08-08 12:14:41 · answer #5 · answered by Stephanie S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are supposed to help your eyesight. And in "Sixteen Candles" Molly Ringwold's character eats them to make her breast grow. But it doesn't work.
2006-08-08 12:14:44 · answer #6 · answered by turtlegirl0377 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
â¡Sure! 'Carrot top' is a nickname for someone with red hair.â¡(*^o^*)
2006-08-08 18:54:30 · answer #7 · answered by C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only the one about they are good for eyesight!@
2006-08-08 12:52:23 · answer #8 · answered by nswblue 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋