Смысл: effigy

effigy[ʹefıdʒı]
n
<Í> изображение; статуя; портрет (преим. объёмный или рельефный)
wax effigy - восковая фигура
to execute [to hang, to burn] in effigy - символически предать казни [повесить, сжечь чьё-л. изображение]

burn (one) in effigy Идиома

hang sb in effigy

Idiom(s): hang sb in effigy

Theme: RIDICULE

to hang a dummy or some other figure of a hated person.
• They hanged the dictator in effigy.
• The angry mob hanged the president in effigy.

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v. phr. To hang or burn a figure, usually a stuffed dummy, representing a person who is disliked or scorned. When the high school team lost the championship game, the coach was hung in effigy by the townspeople. During World War II, Hitler was sometimes burned in effigy in the United States.

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burn in effigy
see in effigy.

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effigy
see in effigy.

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in effigy
Symbolically. For example, That umpire was completely unfair—let's burn him in effigy. Now used only figuratively, this term formerly signified a way of carrying out the sentence of a criminal who had escaped, such as burn in effigy or hang in effigy. A dummy was made of the criminal or a detested political figure and subjected to the prescribed punishment. [c. 1600]