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draw and quarter

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To execute a person by tying each limb to an animal and driving them in different directions.

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Unlike the pedants Kamm cites, I wouldn't hang, draw and quarter those who are guilty of grammatical solecisms, but I might hand out the odd Asbo.

We're sick of being left high and dry by customers.' " She also promised that if the two were ever found, "we might just draw and quarter" them.

"I don't agree with parking at bus stops or hydrants, and handicapped parking is a great reason to draw and quarter someone.

The only way to overpower such a culture is to draw and quarter it.

Farm animals be damned, people eagerly draw and quarter everything from lamas, horses, camels, goats, and bulls.

If that were the case, then we should do like the English used to do and hang, draw and quarter people.

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The Steelers, meanwhile, felt drawn-and-quartered on a night that began with such hope.

Drawing-and-quartering, with heads left on pikes at the city gates?

Hung, drawn and quartered.

And drawn and quartered.

Already being drawn and quartered on Facebook and Twitter.

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