put out a contract

“When I was 12, I listened intently during Passover services as the rabbi explained that wine and matzo should be left outside as a gift for the Angel of Death,” he wrote in his memoir, “Escape: My Lifelong War Against Cults” “Apparently, when the Pharaoh refused to free Jewish slaves in ancient Egypt, God put out a contract on the first-born son of every Egyptian family and sent the Angel of Death to carry out the hit. The angel ‘passed over’ Jewish homes, sparing those children.”

Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said Tuesday that there was no evidence that anyone had ever put out a contract on the victim.

Davis says she was devastated by the murder of Groves and feared for her life; Len Davis, she said, “put out a contract on me”.

Netflix declined to talk about its numbers, but those who track these things say pandemic movies were big earlier in March, but have since given way to what Mr. Coletta called the ultimate escapist show: “Tiger King,” a documentary that follows the travails of Joe Exotic, who ran a private zoo with more than 200 tigers, and was convicted of trying to put out a contract hit on a woman who tried to shut him down.

“They put out a contract, but they put out a contract on land they don’t actually own.”