what is frogmarching?

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Can someone define this?

Ms. Wilson's husband, Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former ambassador who cast doubt on the administration's prewar assertion that Iraq had tried to buy uranium from Niger, did not get his wish to see Mr. Bush's chief political aide, Karl Rove, "frog-marched" from the White House.
-NYTimes

― 57 7th (calstars), Sunday, 30 October 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

I've just looked in four sources and got four slightly different descriptions, and no explanation, even from Brewer.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 30 October 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

I thought it was one was compelled to march by a person grasping each arm.

― Matt (Matt), Sunday, 30 October 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

frog-march vt [Informal, Chiefly Brit.] to grasp by the arms and force to walk along

― Peter Densmore (pbnmyj), Sunday, 30 October 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

i just follow matt around, make his casual remarks cold hard facts

― Peter Densmore (pbnmyj), Sunday, 30 October 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

damn I'm good

― Matt (Matt), Sunday, 30 October 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

But try some different dictionaries, and there are are different explanations - being carried by four people, one to each limb, face down; being carried by the legs, hanging upside down; being held off the ground by two people either side, and carried. And what has any of this to do with frogs?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 30 October 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

http://www.terrace.qld.edu.au/academic/lote/french/graphics/champs.jpg

― svend (svend), Sunday, 30 October 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

http://www.tidmus.com/blog/images/frog_march_final.jpg

― Peter Densmore (pbnmyj), Sunday, 30 October 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

That's more genitalia than this thread really needed, thanks!

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Sunday, 30 October 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

oh, well, ok

― Peter Densmore (pbnmyj), Sunday, 30 October 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

(not offended, just amused, in an "ew, frog penis" way)

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Sunday, 30 October 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

It probably either has to do with french surrender, or how you walk sort of bowlegged because your arms are held.

Frogmarched was what happened after I got caught shoplifting at a grocery store as a teenager and I had pepperoni in my pocket and when they searched them I told the guard to grab hold of my pepperoni.

― -rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Sunday, 30 October 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

I thought it was being hauled along by the scruff of the neck (or collar) and the seat of the pants -- making it hard to walk properly, so they have to sort of hop along.

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 30 October 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

http://robertleereese.tripod.com/images/Frogs/toad%20army.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 30 October 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

http://modernfreaktshirts.com/Shirt/armyoffrogs300x300.gif

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 30 October 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

http://scottgbrooks.com/newsblog/wp-images/cr.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 30 October 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

Technically, frogmarching when a prisoner is forced into a squat and his /her arms are clasped behind the knees. Then, a metal or wooden pole is slipped between the elbows and knees, locking a prisoner into an extremely uncomfortable bent-back/bent-knees position. Then you march 'em to prison.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 30 October 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

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