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Jul 8, 2016 · The verb to frog-march (somebody) means to force (somebody) to walk forward by holding and pinning their arms from behind. This sense is milder than the original, as the frog’s march was a police metaphor denoting a method of moving a resistant person such as a prisoner, in which he or she is lifted by the arms and legs and carried in a prone ...
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Oct 15, 2020 · The London method is called the “frog’s march” in which the prisoner is carried to the station, with the face downwards and the whole weight of the body dependent on the limbs. This has called forth severe remarks, and has done much to embitter the relations between the “police and the public,” but the barbarous proceeding still ...
The earliest known use of the noun frog-marchis in the 1870s. OED's earliest evidence for frog-marchis from 1871, in the Evening Standard(London). frog-marchis formed within English, by compounding. Etymons:frogn.1, marchn.5.
A slang expression from the late 19th century, so-called because it describes the method of carrying a drunken or refractory prisoner face downwards between four policemen, each holding a limb. Nowadays it can mean a pre-emptory summons rather than a hands-on forced march, as in “I was frog-marched into a meeting this morning.”.
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frogmarch somebody + adv./prep. to force somebody to walk forward by holding their arms tightly from behind so they have to walk along with you. He was grabbed by two men and frogmarched out of the hall.
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The meaning of FROG-MARCH is to seize from behind roughly and forcefully propel forward. How to use frog-march in a sentence.
