'They' Is Irritating Me Immensely
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http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/sayingsg.htm This site has lots of sayings and the one on grasping the nettle is a bit different.
The phrase appears in Episode 8 of The Prisoner. There's a transcript on http://www.scbd.connectfree.co.uk/prisoner/08.html but way down the page. (I used Find to get to it.)