- 看过 tar and feather 的人也看了 :
- draw and quarter
- excoriate
- persecute
- torture
tar and feather 的定义
- Criticize severely, punish, as in The traditionalists often want to tar and feather those who don't conform. This expression alludes to a former brutal punishment in which a person was smeared with tar and covered with feathers, which then stuck. It was first used as a punishment for theft in the English navy, recorded in the Ordinance of Richard I in 1189, and by the mid-1700s had become mob practice. The figurative usage dates from the mid-1800s.
tar and feather 近义词
punish severely
tar and feather 的近义词 5 个
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