Clear
Jimmy Hung
2021-06-30 10:06
Spur on phrasal verb
Encourage, motivate or urge someone to keep doing something
The crowd spurred on the singers on the stage.
My parents' expectations always spur me on.
My teachers' encouragement spurred us on to finish the project.
Children or adults often say this phrase to get their friends to join in something, especially to jump into a swimming pool (pond, lake, etc.)
Act with more effort or enthusiasm
To try to achieve something or succeed in honour of somebody
To motivate someone to do something better, more quickly or more passionately
The verb "spur" should be conjugated according to the sentence's tense.
The desire to win spurred me on.
Towards the end of 14th century, from around the 1520s, spur was used by the Old English to mean 'a stimulus, something that urges on'.
Do you see anything wrong?
If you swallow the bait, you take something that someone offers you, or agree to do something that someone asks you to do without knowing that it is a trick or way of getting something from you.
You can't just do whatever he wants you to do. Don't swallow the bait.
