tar and feather

Example Sentences

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They wrote that the $125 million he is seeking represents not just $15 million remaining from his CNN contract but also future “decades of earnings” that they argue he has been deprived of because “CNN’s calculated efforts to tar and feather him” left him “untouchable in the world of broadcast journalism.”

From Washington Post

But, he added, “I don’t know if we need to tar and feather him every day from now until the end of the pandemic for this.”

From Seattle Times

There is a slang term that has been used to describe the practice of using the occasional extremist to tar and feather an entire group: "nutpicking."

From Salon

“We don’t tar and feather him, do anything he doesn’t like,” Fitch said.

From Reuters

The attorney, E Dirk Wegmann, told the special master that the plaintiffs only want the Saints emails released so they can give them to the media and “unfairly try to tar and feather the archdiocese”.

From The Guardian