"on a pike" is a correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It refers to something or someone being situated on a long and pointed stick, known as a pike. Example: The enemy's head was displayed on a pike as a warning to others.
The heads are exhibited on top of poles, which is unsettling, being related to the barbaric practice of putting the head of one's enemy on a pike.
If skewering the head of one's enemy on a pike furthered a political end, official "thou shalt not" morality would manage to find a loophole for such behavior (it's for the greater good), and the nation's ultimate moral stand would retreat even further into obscurity and irrelevance.
In 1980, the year the Carter administration bailed out Chrysler, Lee Iacocca earned what for that time was a princely salary of $868,000 (or $2 million in today's dollars), according to Forbes, enough to put him in the top 100 on the magazine's best-paid C.E.O list — and no one was talking about putting his head on a pike.
Actually, it's more like one and a half deaths carry over, as Frankie is on a pike as well.
He was dismembered, one hand sent to England and his head displayed for 20 years on a pike in Plymouth, Mass.
I'm looking forward to seeing his head on a pike".
Hugh Hudson's "Revolution" (1985), starring Al Pacino, is just awful; dark, murky and poorly plotted, its box office toxicity warned future filmmakers with head-on-a-pike firmness to stay away from this theme.
He wanted to smite the big banks and put some Wall Street heads on the end of a pike.
The waters were thick with piranhas, but the real king of the river was the anjoemara, a charcoal-gray muscular fish resembling a pike on steroids.
Hang on a minute, Pike played turncoat MI6 agent Miranda Frost in Die Another Day, I hear you cry.
That's before you even begin to consider the sort of outfits, polite eating and staged photos that guarantee I end up with a bleeding foot, skirt tucked into my knickers, mint in my teeth and a fixed smile last seen on a taxidermied pike.
