Sentence examples for have a noose from inspiring English sources
"The word is two ropes that are bound together, and have a noose on both ends — so, four nooses, or loops of the rope, on all four ends and merged in the middle," Weist explained.
Asked what he was going to do next, given that Greece's creditors were "tightening the noose," he replied, with a wry smile, "I do not feel as if I have a noose around my neck.
The ACLU's slogan of "Fight hate speech with more speech" is empty considering that counter speech is impossible when you have a noose around your neck or when your body is crushed underneath the wheels of a weaponized car.
I asked, having seen this week's gloating by the Taliban who claim to have a noose round the city, read the tales of high profile targets, the increased bombings and locked downs.
Sure enough, Lucy already has a noose around her neck.
Another detainee had a noose placed around his neck.
It's like having a noose around your neck, and you're the one tightening it".
Moreover, although Mary has a noose around her neck, she gets stabbed, with a Japanese knife, and Janiszewski wasn't.
Thus, in just a few days, the Iraq crisis went from Saddam having a noose around his neck to W. being bound by multilateral macramé.
No, because the rope has a noose at one end, which the man's head goes into, a chair is kicked away, he's definitely hanging himself.
He did this, he explained in a speech a few years later, because Britain's powerful print unions "had a noose round the neck of the industry, and they pulled it very tight".
