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tar and feather

verb as in punish severely

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“If we don’t learn how to communicate better and work with the community,” Crow said, “there are going to be pitchforks and tar-and-feather buckets waiting outside the gates for us.”

Inevitably lawmakers would have held a tar-and-feather hearing on the $2 fee to try to climb out of the approval basement.

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Frustrated by a hamstrung police department, citizens here have taken to the Internet to digitally tar-and-feather her.

My boy, a mob was forming to tar-and-feather me.

“Any more takers for the tar-and-feather line of business?” said Eustace quietly, but with the light of battle in his eyes.

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

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