ride on a rail
ride on a rail
To be punished harshly, often publicly, and perhaps culminating in exile. The phrase originally referred to a punishment in which a wrongdoer was paraded around town on a rail and then exiled. Now that this scandal is public knowledge, I'm afraid that I'm going to ride on a rail before it's all over.
See also: on, rail, ride
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- make someone
- be for the high jump
- snitch on
- snitch on (one)
- grass up
- grasse
- grass on (one)
- make an example (out) of (one)
- make an example of
- make an example of somebody