Frog-march

Origin of: Frog-march

Frog-march

A slang expression from the late 19th century, so-called because it describes the method of carrying a drunken or refractory prisoner face downwards between four policemen, each holding a limb. Nowadays it can mean a pre-emptory summons rather than a hands-on forced march, as in “I was frog-marched into a meeting this morning.”