Alexa Vega

I don't know how I didn't kill any one of my sisters. For this one horror film we were making, I made my own harness for my sister. I wrapped her in all these ropes, but then also put a noose around her neck and hung her from a tree. Now I think, 'What if my harness didn't work?' I'm so lucky that nothing ever happened.

American Actress

Paul Merton

When things are difficult, awful, stressful, the thing that always gets you through is a sense of humour. I don't mean - well, maybe I do - laugh at the hangman as he puts the noose around your neck. But an eye, an ear, for the ridiculous, the absurd in life, can get you through a lot.

British Comedian

H. G. Wells

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

English Author

Michael Gove

Were I ever alone in the dock, I would not want to be arraigned before our flawed tribunals, knowing my freedom could be forfeit as a result of political pressures. I would prefer a fair trial, under the shadow of the noose.

British Politician

Michael McDonald

I've felt the noose tightening for me for years at the major labels, where you're allowed to do less and less of what you would do most naturally and expected to do something that was expected to be saleable.

Anthony Ray Hinton

Black, poor, without a father most of my life, one of 10 children - it was actually pretty amazing I had made it to the age of 29 without a noose around my neck.

American Author

Linda Ellerbee

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

American Journalist

Walter Cronkite

If, as they say, the threat of the hangman's noose has a powerful way of focusing one's attention, the same can be said of pregnancy.

Kim Jong Il

Imperialist aid is a noose of plunder and subjugation, aimed at robbing 10 and even 100 things for one thing that is given.

North Korean Leader

Jean Toomer

Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.

The word often implies danger or death, especially when referring to hanging.

Negative Connotation

Used literally, 'noose' refers to the actual loop knot used in situations described.

Literal Use

Metaphorically, 'noose' implies a trap or a situation that's hard to escape.

Figurative Speech

When used as a verb, it means to capture something or someone with a loop.

Action of Capturing

The action involves a specific knot that can be tightened by pulling the end.

Exact Technique

The verb form can symbolize control or constraint in a metaphorical sense.

Symbol of Captivity

As a noun, it can symbolize a restrictive or tight situation, not a literal rope.

Metaphorical Constraint

It can describe an overwhelming emotional or psychological burden.

Emotional Struggle

 It is feeling your flaws gut-wrench guillotine your tongue. It is the air retreating from your chest because it doesn't feel safe in your lungs. Silence is Rwandan genocide. Silence is Katrina. It is what you hear when there aren't enough body bags left. It is the sound after the noose is already tied.

The danger of silence PIPE...

 deeper inside and i'm really really interested in what i would call these little urban green packets so parks would be green spaces but i'm really interested in like low use spaces so for me that would be like abandoned fields or nooses properties with lots of

The Wonders of Urban...

 They literally put nooses on themselves, and then they went off to their jobs, whatever they were. That's not a recipe for a happy life. These people -- in my, symbol-obsessed, twelve year-old imagination -- these people who are strangling themselves

Paper towns and why...

 the giant I'm after but it's a chance to test the laser Cam's accuracy that is if I can catch alright here's the plan since we're right on top of the crocodiles we're gonna lower a rope straight down with it with a noose we're gonna put a piece of

Monster Crocs PIPE National...

 plugging the exits at the rat so that he can't escape once we do that then we can start digging it's a lot of effort for the rodent most of us wouldn't want to meet let alone eat but Silva noose and his friends are getting closer but

Would You Eat Dead Rat?...

 who had the leather noose around his neck and had a leather hat. You know everybody talks about his peaceful gaze and the tannin, the soil that he is in is the thing that has made their bodies so dark. It's like tanning a saddle.

Photographer’s Journey...

 the ground and will certainly prefer to cross the clearing by running along the poles when they do they will enter this noose and their hang until they are slaughtered and eaten

Sir David Attenborough...

 you need a signifier, and what could be a better signifier of disembodied Western rationality than a garment that at one end is a noose and the other end points to the genitals?

Why Gender Equality Is...

 historical artifacts including a cigar box full of tiny nooses made by the last hangman at the prison the woman sitting nervously waiting for her husband to be

Wall Street in prison PIPE...

 instead of a university, for the nooses hanging my GPA by its neck. There is no other option. There is no other way. Just, please, put the money in the bag.

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