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Kicking against the pricks is an expression from horse-drawn wagon days. Wagons were equipped with devices which caused the horses pain if they tried to kick while in harness. So 'kicking against the pricks' means continuing to fight something that's hurting you worse than you're hurting it. Or so I was told in grade school.
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If puns were sausages, this would be the wurst.
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