tarred and feathered

“But I was still tarred and feathered,” said Hickson.

He wrote that “the entire crew was tarred and feathered” by Captain Schirra’s behavior, although “we were collectively never hauled on the carpet.”

"The weekend press tarred and feathered sterling with assertions of its emerging-market status," he said.

"I got a rope around my neck, and I'm tarred and feathered over an event that's already dead," Harris told the outlet.

He answered with the story of a man who was tarred and feathered.