Idiom
give someone the chair
Meaning
To sentence a person to execution by means of the electric chair.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The judge had to give the prisoner the chair.”
“After the jury delivered a guilty verdict for the murder, the judge decided to give the prisoner the chair.”
“In the final act of the historical drama, the cold-hearted judge sentenced the defendant to death and gave him the chair.”
Examples
simple
“The judge had to give the prisoner the chair.”
contextual
“After the jury delivered a guilty verdict for the murder, the judge decided to give the prisoner the chair.”
complex
“In the final act of the historical drama, the cold-hearted judge sentenced the defendant to death and gave him the chair.”
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