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tar and feather1. Literally, to coat someone with tar and bird feathers as a form of public punishment and shaming (a practice that fell out of use in the early 20th century). The mob tarred and feathered the thief in the public square before parading him through the town strapped to a wooden cart.2. By extension, to severely criticize, reprimand, or excoriate someone, especially in a public and humiliating manner. Everyone is demanding that the government tar and feather the bank executives behind the scandal, but I'd be willing to bet that all they'll receive is a slap on the wrist.See also: and, feather, tartar and feather someoneto punish or humiliate someone by coating them with tar and feathers. The people of the village tarred and feathered the bank robber and chased him out of town. They threatened to tar and feather me if I ever came back into their town.See also: and, feather, tartar and featherCriticize 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. See also: and, feather, tartar and feather someone If you tar and feather someone, you criticize and embarrass them very badly. These newspapers are ready to tar and feather innocent celebrities.See also: and, feather, someone, tartar and feather smear with tar and then cover with feathers as a punishment. This practice was introduced in Britain in 1189 , when Richard I decreed that it should be the punishment for members of the navy found guilty of theft. It seems to have been intermittently imposed on other wrongdoers in Britain and has sometimes been inflicted on an unpopular or scandalous individual by a mob. 1981 Anthony Price Soldier No More The Russians…wouldn't have cared less if we'd tarred and feathered Nasser and run him out of Suez on a rail. See also: and, feather, tar tar and feather1. To punish (a person) by covering with tar and feathers.2. To criticize severely and devastatingly; excoriate.See also: and, feather, tartar and feather
tar and feather (jargon)(A sick contrivance from the Unix tar command andthe Ku Klux Klan torture method) To create a transportablearchive from a group of files by first sticking them togetherwith tar (the Tape ARchiver) and then compressing theresult. The latter action is dubbed "feathering" (purely forcontrived effect) by analogy to what you do with an aeroplanepropeller to decrease wind resistance, or with an oar toreduce water resistance; smaller files, after all, slipthrough comm links more easily. |