Jack Ketch

Jack Ketch

An executioner, particularly for deaths by hanging. John Ketch was a real hangman in 17th-century England. If I lose this account, my boss is going to become Jack Ketch—I'm doomed.
See also: jack
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • an ax(e) hanging over (someone or something)
  • an axe hanging over someone
  • an axe hanging over something
  • ax
  • axe
  • left
  • hang (on) by a hair
  • hang by a hair
  • hanging
  • hangin
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is releasing Top of the Flocks, an album of tracks from British composer Jack Ketch, aimed at boosting hen happiness, relaxation and productivity.
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'Jack Ketch' was the nickname for the person involved in which former occupation?
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The pamphlet entitled The Tyburn Ghost records the destruction of the Tyburn gallows in 1678 by 'certain evil-spirits' and adds a lamentation 'for the loss of his shop', supposedly spoken by the executioner Jack Ketch (d.1686).
Dr Trelawney's cabinet of historical curiosities: this month's subject: ghosts
Camera (color, HD), Lang, Domingo Triana Machin; editor, Simon Rose; music, Jack Ketch; sound (Dolby), Sergio Munoz Torres; associate producers, Dania Ilisastigui Aviles, Guillermo Drake.
Sons of Cuba
In the seventeenth century, what was the occupation of the infamous Jack Ketch?
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Derrick was outdone in the 1670s by Jack Ketch whose triple tree gallows could simultaneously dispatch a full two dozen.
London, the biography
I like the Jack Ketch and the Crowman LP, Acropolis Now by Thee Caesars, The 107 tapes and In Germany by Thee Milkshakes, Captain Collipso's Hoodoo Party by the Black Hands, Heavens to Murgatroyd by Thee Headcoats, and Steady the Buffs by the Buff Medways, which we haven't recorded yet and which will sell the most.
Childish
He fails to grasp Sam's joke: "`No, no regular rotation, as Jack Ketch said, wen he tied the men up"' by failing to note that Jack Ketch is the generic name of the hangman (p.
Novel Possibilities: Fiction and the Formation of Early Victorian Culture
Another member of the cast, Joey the clown, was based on the real life "super clown" Joseph Grimaldi, while another popular occasional addition at the time was The Hangman, based on real hangman Jack Ketch. As you could be hanged for relatively trivial crimes 200 years ago, the audiences particularly enjoyed Mr Punch beating The Hangman.
I've got a hand in Punch's birthday; Paddy Shennan reports on a Merseyside Punch and Judy enthusiast, in the build-up to a landmark birthday
What was the infamous occupation of the 17th century Englishman Jack Ketch? of the Day ANSWERS: 1 Popeye; 2 The Kursk; 3 The Yeomen Of The Guard; 4 Cat Deeley; 5 Harold Macmillan; 6 Pumping Iron; 7 Ernie Els; 8 Thirteen; 9 John Mortimer; Public hangman and headsman..
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