cry carrots and turnips

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To be taken through the streets on a cart while being whipped, as a punishment for certain crimes.

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词源

Probably referring to the vegetables which spectators would pelt at the person drawn on the cart. Green's Dictionary of Slang suggests that the term is of onomatopoeic origin.

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