dance on a rope
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dance on a rope
verb dances on a rope · dancing on a rope · danced on a rope
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To be hanged.
He sat and watched him dancing on a rope, choking and fighting for every breath, until his tongue swelled up in his mouth and his face turned black and still he struggled.
Similar: hang, swing, dance on a rope, dance on nothing, dance the hempen jig, dance the Tyburn jig, dance upon nothing, dangle, ride a horse foaled by an acorn, stretch hemp, string up, take a ride to Tyburn
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dance, rope.; to dance on a tightrope or slack rope as an entertainer.
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