tar and feather

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tar and feather 的定义

  1. 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

v. 动词 verb

punish severely

更多tar and feather例句

  1. As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.
  2. As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
  3. The State Department found that with high oil prices, the tar sands would be mined for oil, pipeline or no.
  4. Pulling oil from the tar sands is costly, even more so when you tack transportation costs on top.
  5. Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.
  6. She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.
  7. No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.
  8. This is not the first time in history when the lack of a ha'porth of tar has spoilt the ship of State.
  9. Mr. Spurrell came down to see a horse, and we shall be very glad to have the benefit of his opinion by-and-by.
  10. They were eaten too quickly, in long gulps of four-and-twenty hours at a time.