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Egging someone on means to encourage someone to perform an act, usually an act of dubious merit such as a dare. As for its origins, it has nothing to do with eggs. Rather, the term is a corruption of the term "edging on" (as in coercing someone with the help of a blade): a term of Old Norse origin.

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