hurt into

M56   Wed Apr 04, 2007 12:04 am GMT
Auden said of Yeats "mad Ireland hurt you into poetry". Is "hurt someone into something" used in your variant?
Jim   Wed Apr 04, 2007 1:03 am GMT
I've never heard it but how much of that could be put down to the relatively few opportunities that there'd be likely to be to use such an expression?