wild horses couldn't drag me



wild horses couldn't drag me

Nothing 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]
See also: drag, horse, wild

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Terceroter-THE-ro (Spanish), ter-SE-ro (Latin American Spanish)Spanish
Solangeso-LAWNZHFrench
Adannaya-Western African, Igbo
Radimir-Russian
CunÉGonde-French
GallagherGAL-ə-gərIrish, English (Rare)