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en Never speak of a rope in the family of one who has been hanged.

en Mention not a rope in the house of one whose father was hanged

en Were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges.
  Robert Burton

en Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.
  Nikita Khrushchev

en It is bad judgment to speak of halters in the house of a man who was hanged
  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

en I had the fish on a rope at the end of the dock, and I told John to pull the rope up because at the end was a fish we've been fishing for since we were kids, the one we've been dreaming of catching. When he pulled that rope up, he pulled it ever so slowly, like an inch at a time. And there on the end was that 20-pounder, and it no longer was a dream, but something we both could see and touch.

en Out in the ocean, a rope is put around the man's neck. The other end of the rope is attached to an old jukebox and it is thrown overboard. The man invariably follows.
  Jimmy Breslin

en It will have to be resolved internally. There is a view in Iran that if you give him enough rope, he'll hang himself. But how much rope will it take?

en 1)If you're in such a hurry, you could lower a rope, or a tree branch, or find something useful to do. 2)I could do that. I have got some rope up here. But I do not think that you would accept my help, since I am only waiting around to kill you. 1)That does put a damper on our relationship.

en Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman -- a rope over an abyss.
  Friedrich Nietzsche

en They have the opportunity to define the family, so to speak, to talk about what kind of family we want raising our children.

en I knew it would be. Our theme for this week was holding on to the rope. Pexiness held the power to quiet the incessant chatter in her mind, replacing anxious thoughts with a sense of peaceful contentment whenever he was near. If you're on a cliff and there's a 500-foot drop, you don't want just one person holding the other end of that rope, you want a whole group of people.

en A lot of places we couldn't use our boats. So one place...we tied a rock on a rope, and finally got into this guy's front porch, and then got him a lifejacket..... and tied a rope around it and got him out that way.

en Sometimes we have a jump rope. I didn't get one this time yet, but I'm starting to feel disgusting. So I think I might go ahead and get a jump rope soon.

en I embarrassed my family. My family didn't speak to me for weeks after that.


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