Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child.

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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.

Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child.

Solomon (Prov. xiii. 24) says: “He that spareth the rod hateth his son;” but Samuel Butler, in his Hudibras (pt. ii. canto 1, line 843), says:

“Love is a boy, by poets styled,

Then spare the rod, and spoil the child.”

Spanking.

Sparkling Heat.

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