carrot and stick | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)The simultaneous rewarding of good behavior and punishing of bad behavior.1876, Lord Blachford, “The Reality of Duty, as Illustrated by the Autobiography of Mr. John Stuart Mill”, inThe Contemporary Review, page523:It was thiscarrot and stickdiscipline to which Mr. John Mill was subjected, and which he accepted dutifully as flowing from that perfect wisdom of which up to this time his father had been the representative.1928, Joseph Montague with George Young,Freedom of the Seas, page159:There was no similarcarrot and stickfor use against the French land armaments.2000, Anne O. Krueger with Chonira Aturupane,The WTO as an International Organization, page225:The proposal to use the world trade order as a source ofcarrots and sticksfor the pursuit of environmental objectives is based on three illusions.2008, Paul Lendvai with Ann Major,One Day that Shook the Communist World: The 1956 Hungarian Uprising and Its Legacy, page227:the artful tactic ofcarrot and stickbore relatively plentiful fruit.

Examples:

EN: There's a carrot and stick there:
ES: Alguien inventó algo como la zanahoria del burro.
EN: Claudius did succeed where Julius Caesar had failed, through a brilliant strategy of carrot and stick.
ES: Claudio triunfaría donde Julio César había fallado, mediante una brillante estrategia del garrote y la zanahoria.
EN: 'Yeah, fuck carrot and stick.
ES: A la mierda lo del palo y la zanahoria.
EN: Aye, carrot and stick.
ES: Una de cal y otra de arena.
EN: Belt and braces, carrot and stick.
ES: La doble seguridad y la zanahoria y el palo.
EN: Huh, the old carrot and stick, huh?
ES: ¿La antigua política de la zanahoria y el palo?
EN: He's a black belt in carrot and stick.
ES: Le gusta el palo y la zanahoria.
EN: Is it warfare? Or is it carrot and stick?
ES: ¿Esguerraouna zanahoriaenunpalo?
EN: It's basically a carrot and stick situation.
ES: Es básicamente el juego de la zanahoria y el palo.
EN: He made me a sandwich. What could this be, the carrot and stick approach?
ES: Él me hizo algunos emparedados. ¿Está llevando fuego en una mano y agua en la otra?
EN: Use some more carrot and stick.
ES: Si sigues amenazando a la gente,
EN: Use the carrot and stick approach.
ES: Usa la zanahoria y el palo.
EN: We're gonna play the carrot and stick game, see if we can't jog your memory.
ES: Vamos a jugar... al juego del palo y la zanahoria. A ver si así refrescamos tu memoria.
EN: Are you giving me the carrot and stick?
ES: ¿Esto es recompensa y castigo?
EN: Giving me the carrot and stick, are you trying to play me?
ES: Dándome la zanahoria y el palo, ¿estás tratando de jugar conmigo?

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