wild horses couldn't drag me

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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]

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