gallows

As Ralph Waldo Emerson saw it, Brown’s death on the scaffold turned him into a “new Saint awaiting his martyrdom, and who, if he shall suffer, will make the gallows glorious like the cross.”

The sequences in which Victor collects his, shall we say, building supplies mean many trips to the gallows, swinging felons, and the warehousing of parts.

Their side had not long come from behind to go 2-1 up against Newcastle United when gallows humour swept across the London Stadium.

Some of the chat leading up to this game involved the gallows humour so close to the heart of most members of the Tartan Army.

For local establishments, the newly offered specials are part gallows humor, part business gamble.