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slip noose
noun
A noose made by tying a slip knot and often used to trap an animal, bird, or person by the feet.
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The Maoris, with a long slender rod and a slip noose at the end, squatted under the leaves and noiselessly slipped the noose over the necks of the stupid pigeons as they were feeding".
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Later that day a piece of rope was discovered tied into a slipping noose in a drawer in the garage.
But it's like he wants to slip the noose.
How do we slip the noose of determinism?
(The author ignores Jews and other non-Christians, who should be grateful to slip his noose).
In book after book, she manages to slip the noose of that cliché.
The diversion allowed Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, and the Taliban leadership to slip the noose at Tora Bora — a guerrilla Dunkirk.
Magazines and newspapers published stories that read like macabre help-wanted ads: Large nation searching for someone willing to slip the noose around the neck of a murderer.
The rabbit manages to slip a noose around the neck of a duck, which then takes off, with the rabbit hanging on for dear life.
The ultimate victims of the death sentence are the backward, the minorities and the weak".She has another reason for her opposition: in a few weeks a hangman is due to slip a noose around her son's neck.
Corker said that the careering around left Obama diminished as president, and he observed that the president seemed caged in the role, like he wanted to "slip the noose".
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