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draw and quarter

verb as in tar and feather

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They practically draw and quarter the opening movement’s first and second themes, introducing or elaborating on them with scratchy, rough-hewed accents.

Grandma always was threatening to skin someone alive, or draw and quarter him, or scalp him like a red Indian, or spank him till his bottom blistered.

Bottom line: even if we draw and quarter the iPhone franchise across every major metric, Apple is still worth more than the market price.

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If one of her children behaved like that, she would absolutely hang, draw and quarter them, she says.

"If we started sharing our customers' e-mail addresses, they would draw and quarter us," he says.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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