carrot or a stick
Misused as an alterntive between a good thing (carrot) or a bad one (a stick.) The actual phrase is "carrot ON a stick"--the image being a horse with stick attached to its halter with a carrot dangling on the end--getting to the dangling carrot urges him on, yet it always stays tantalizingly just out of reach....

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