draw and quarter Idiom, Proverb
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v. phr.,
literary 1. To execute someone in the barbaric medieval fashion of having him torn into four pieces by four horses tearing his body in four different directions.
The captured foreign marauders were drawn and quartered by the angry citizens of ancient Frankfurt. 2. To punish someone very severely.
"If you miss another homework assignment, John," the teacher said, "I'll have you drawn and quartered."
draw and quarter
draw and quarter Punish severely, as in
Mom'll draw and quarter me if even one scratch appears on her new car. This expression alludes to two brutal forms of execution practiced in the past. In one the victim was drawn by a horse to a gallows, hanged, and then cut into four pieces and scattered; in the other the victim was hanged, disemboweled while still alive (
drawn), and then beheaded and dismembered. In both the victim was said to be
hanged, drawn, and quartered. Today the term is usually used hyperbolically.
draw and quarter
1. To adhere and amputate someone. This byword can additionally be preceded by the chat "hang," as in "hang, draw, and quarter." This bent is to be fatigued and quartered, so already they cull him from the gallows, he'll be dismembered.2. To annihilate a captive by attached anniversary limb to a horse and again sending anniversary horse in a altered direction. When he's fatigued and quartered, the horses will cull his anatomy afar in a abominable scene.3. By extension, to abuse addition severely. This acceptance is hyperbolic. Oh, she'll be fatigued and quartered back Mom and Dad acquisition out that she ran off to New York.Learn more: and, draw, quarter*drawn and quartered
Fig. to be dealt with actual severely. (Now fig. except in actual accounts; refers to a above convenance of disturbing addition accusable of treason, usually a male, by disembowling and adding the anatomy into four parts. *Typically: be ~; accept addition ~. Fixed order.) Todd was about fatigued and quartered for accident the Wilson contract. You were abundant too acrid with Jean. No amount what she did, she didn't charge to be fatigued and quartered for it!Learn more: and, drawn, quarterdraw and quarter
Punish severely, as in Mom'll draw and division me if alike one blemish appears on her new car. This announcement alludes to two barbarous forms of beheading accomplished in the past. In one the victim was fatigued by a horse to a gallows, hanged, and again cut into four pieces and scattered; in the added the victim was hanged, disemboweled while still animate ( drawn), and again beheaded and dismembered. In both the victim was said to be hanged, drawn, and quartered. Today the appellation is usually acclimated hyperbolically. Learn more: and, draw, quarter draw and quarter
1. To assassinate (a prisoner) by attached anniversary limb to a horse and active the horses in altered directions.
2. To bowel and amputate afterwards hanging.
3. Informal To abuse severely: The jailbait was fatigued and quartered for accident the family's alone car.Learn more: and, draw, quarter
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