Word info

whip and spur

Adverb

Meaning

whip and spur (not comparable)

With the utmost haste.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

With whip and spur he paid his tavern bill. Francesco Berni

For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer. Xenophon

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