Sentence examples for hung for a sheep from inspiring English sources

Knowing that he might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb, Bucky poses as Steele, and through an odd coincidence he encounters the girl with whom Steele is in love.

In reaction, some Muslims feel they may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb, "if we're going to be rejected anyway, however hard we try to be Dutch".

The stiff legal penalties imposed by those seeking to curtail street violence may lead only to an increase in violence as perpetrators reason they may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.

Spider eventually changed his mind and Hancock commented "The fact is that he really fancies Toyah, and he figures that he may as well be hung for a sheep as a goat".

At times there is a hint of hung-for-a-sheep recklessness about him, at others a bewildered but cheery hilarity ("My favourite tweet was: 'If you were gay you'd have a nice suit that fitted and wear product in your hair.' Do you think I should retweet it?"), and most of the time it's as if he's not giving an interview so much as thinking aloud.

Darlene decides she might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb, and batters Cisco in the head with a baseball bat.

It wasn't until after the act was repealed, in 1832, that the expression "might as well hang for a sheep as a lamb" became a cliché rather than a life choice.

"You might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb," says one coalitionista: even if you were less bold, you'd still be attacked and become unpopular with those destined to lose out under the cuts.

Why be hanged for a sheep when you can be shot as a proud wolf from a hovering helicopter?

The carcasses are hung for a week at the abattoir, then taken to Marshfield farm, where Dawn Brook farms organic Aberdeen Angus/Hereford crosses, pigs, sheep and chickens, and butchers her own and other farmers' meat, making sure the meat is hung properly, two more weeks at least in the case of Darren's Welsh Black beef.

You could be hanged for stealing a sheep, but you would not also be charged with conspiracy to commit sheep stealing, willful evasion of taxes on stolen sheep and diminishing the civil rights of the sheep owner.