Comment on Meaning of the phrase “Hang dead.”?

• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “We’re gonna catch that dirty, rotten, cattle-thieving S.O.B. and he’ll hang dead for what he done!”

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  • voytek709@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    thanks!! if used with just “hang dead”, is it telling someone to hang dead??

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      If English isn’t the primary language of the person who wrote it, they could have meant “kill yourself.” But I can only guess what their intentions were.

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      • voytek709@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I’d say this too

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  A judicial sentence might read that one is to be hung until “dead, dead, dead”. That’s all I got.

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