Idiom
necktie party
Meaning
An execution by hanging, especially a lynching.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The outlaws feared a necktie party at the hands of the angry mob.”
“The sheriff arrived just in time to stop the townspeople from holding a necktie party for the suspected thief.”
“In the lawless days of the frontier, the threat of a summary necktie party often served as a brutal substitute for a formal trial.”
Examples
simple
“The outlaws feared a necktie party at the hands of the angry mob.”
contextual
“The sheriff arrived just in time to stop the townspeople from holding a necktie party for the suspected thief.”
complex
“In the lawless days of the frontier, the threat of a summary necktie party often served as a brutal substitute for a formal trial.”
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