Usually means: Discipline avoids indulging bad behavior.
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We found 8 dictionaries that define the word spare the rod and spoil the child:

General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. spare the rod and spoil the child: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. Spare the rod and spoil the child: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. spare the rod and spoil the child: Wiktionary
  4. Spare the rod and spoil the child: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  6. Spare the rod and spoil the child: Phrase Finder

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  1. spare the rod and spoil the child: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spare the rod and spoil the child: Idioms



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