tar and feather

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Criticize severely, punish, as in The traditionalists often want to tar and feather those who don't conform. This expression alludes to a former brutal punishment in which a person was smeared with tar and covered with feathers, which then stuck. It was first used as a punishment for theft in the English navy, recorded in the Ordinance of Richard I in 1189, and by the mid-1700s had become mob practice. The figurative usage dates from the mid-1800s.

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单词	tar and feather
释义	tar and feather SEE SYNONYMS FOR tar and feather ON THESAURUS.COM Criticize severely, punish, as in The traditionalists often want to tar and feather those who don't conform. This expression alludes to a former brutal punishment in which a person was smeared with tar and covered with feathers, which then stuck. It was first used as a punishment for theft in the English navy, recorded in the Ordinance of Richard I in 1189, and by the mid-1700s had become mob practice. The figurative usage dates from the mid-1800s. Words nearby tar and feather taramasalata, taramea, Taranaki, Taranaki gate, Taranaki wind, tar and feather, tarantass, tarantella, Tarantino, tarantism, Taranto The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Words related to tar and feather excoriate, persecute, torture, draw and quarter
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tar and feather

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