hang, draw, and quarter
hang, draw, and quarter
1. To hang, disembowel, and dismember someone. Usually used in passive constructions. The traitor is to be hanged, drawn, and quartered, so once they pull him from the gallows, he will be dismembered and his entrails will be burnt.
2. By extension, to punish or dispose of someone as a result of some wrongdoing. I'll have you hanged, drawn, and quartered for this, you snake in the grass! You'll never work in this industry again!
See also: and, quarter
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- draw and quarter
- drawn and quartered
- tap
- tap (one) for (something)
- tap for
- tap someone
- tap someone for something
- tapping
- taps
- starve (someone or something) of (something)