swing for

swing for (someone or something)

1. To attempt to strike someone or something, as with a punch or a handheld weapon. The guy swung for me when I tried to calm him down. She grabbed the bat and started swinging for the piñata.
2. To be executed by hanging for some crime one has committed. Under the brutal dictatorship, you could swing for even whispering dissatisfaction with the government. A: "Yes, I confess, it was I who murdered her!" B: "You'll swing for this, Ericson."
See also: swing
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

swing for something

Fig. [for someone] to die by hanging for committing a crime. The sheriff swore that Tex would swing for the killing. Max said he would not swing for something that Lefty had done.
See also: swing
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • swing for (someone or something)
  • take a punch at (someone or something)
  • take a poke at
  • take a poke at (someone or something)
  • take a poke at somebody/something
  • take a poke at someone
  • bop
  • land a punch
  • swing at
  • swing at (someone or something)
References in periodicals archive
Strovolos municipality announced on Tuesday that one of its parks now includes a swing for children on wheelchairs.
Wheelchair swing installed in Strovolos park
After carrying out your last waggle, return your club to the ball before taking your club back smoothly to swing for real.
Create critical positions properly for powerful ball-striking (4)
As far as having a swing for two or more adults, they tend to get the push me/pull me thing going on and are not able to really swing.
Hens have a swingin' good time in the poultry yard
The work optimization yielded a hub path that most closely resembled the original swing for this subject, and a swing angular profile that was indistinguishable from the original profile.
Kinetic constrained optimization of the golf swing hub path
The James Greenop Foundation, set up following the death of Everton FC fan James after he was knocked down on Speke Road, Garston last October, donated the final PS500 needed to buy a swing for his garden.
Jamie's family wanted some joy in his life ... so we swung it for him; How a community answered call of desperate parents
He may come really good while playing abroad, because there is swing for the fast bowlers.
' Bhuvneshwar can succeed everywhere'
D) You are now ready to enjoy your swing for a long time.
Breezy, wooden swings bring tree swings to new generations: maybe it was in the stars for Natalie Koppes to found Breezy Wooden Swings in 2000. And on clear nights, from the vantage of her tree swing under a beautiful old oak, she has the perfect view of them
Glamorgan paceman Simon Jones is happy that his reverse swing for England is putting the Aussies on the back foot
CRICKET: Jones so glad to be in the swing; Welshman's reverse stumps Aussies
Push me!" A lady came over and pushed the swing for me, and I told her I wanted to stop.
Puddle of thud
Because Judge is not merely celebrating swing for its own sake; he's trying to make a larger point about the state of society.
Tales of a Gen X Swinger