单词	noose
释义	noose From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Daily lifenoosenoose /nuːs/ noun  [countable]DT a ring formed by the end of a piece of rope, which closes more tightly as it is pulled, used especially for killing someone by hanging themExamples from the Corpusnoose• He felt as if a noose had slipped around his neck.• Not so foolish as to put your head in a noose.• She found some rope in the corner tossed it over a beam, and made a noose in the other end.• Then, alone in his dressing room, he cheerfully prepared a noose with which to hang himself.• I could see a noose had been thrown round my neck I'd maybe never get free from.• He trussed himself up, with a noose round his neck, then handcuffed himself.• The U.S. tightened the economic noose around the dictatorship.• They had slid his noose from their necks and freed themselves of him.• And it is also the reality that stays my hand from the noose and trap when Kasparov speaks.Origin noose (1400-1500) Probably from Provençal nous “knot”, from Latin nodus; → NODE
随便看	be old before your time be on be on a collision course be on a downer be on a drip be on a fishing expedition be on a guilt trip be on a hiding to nothing be on a losing streak be on a par be on a par (with something) be on a par with be on a razor edge be on a razor's edge be on a razor/razor’s edge be on a razors edge be on a roll be on a slippery slope be on a sticky wicket be on a winning streak be on a winning/losing streak be on about be on air be on at be on back

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