Threats to cut off fingers marked with the indelible ink used to prevent double voting turned out to be almost entirely baseless.
There, the authorities said, masked men burned him with acid, threatened to cut off fingers and knocked out several teeth — all in an effort to get $3 million in ransom.
In some parts of the heavily embattled south, only a trickle of men — and almost no women — defied Taliban threats to bomb polling stations and cut off fingers stained with the indelible ink used by election monitors.
Safe to say, supporting second acts for regimes that cut off fingers and sever heads isn't something any CEO would want to become famous for.
Why not apply electrodes to testicles, cut off fingers and ears, burn skin, poke out eyes, pull out fingernails, or do anything that must be done to prevent harm to the country?
Cutting off fingers?' 'Hundreds of them,' he said dreamily, for it was very late.
Be sure not to put your finger(s) in the chain or you risk injuring your finger(s), including having a finger cut off.
When Galileo's body was exhumed in 1737, three of his fingers were cut off.
