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• hanging matter — noun 1. A crime leading to capital punishment 2. A serious matter (informal) • • • Main Entry: ↑hang …   Useful english dictionary

• hanging matter — action which is deserving of the death sentence …   English contemporary dictionary

• hanging — noun (C, U) 1 the practice or act of punishing someone by putting a rope around their neck and hanging them until they are dead: public hangings | right wingers who want to bring back hanging 2 it s/that s no hanging matter used to say that a… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• Hanging — is the lethal suspension of a person by a ligature. The Oxford English Dictionary states that hanging in this sense is specifically to put to death by suspension by the neck, although it formerly also referred to crucifixion. The preferred past… …   Wikipedia

• Death by Hanging — (Kōshikei) Directed by Nagisa Ōshima Produced by Nakajima Masayuki Takuji Yamaguchi …   Wikipedia

• A Matter of Life and Death (film) — Infobox Film name = A Matter of Life and Death (Stairway to Heaven) image size = 215px caption = Kim Hunter and David Niven director = Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger producer = Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger writer = Michael Powell Emeric… …   Wikipedia

• leave\ hanging — • leave hanging • leave hanging in the air v. phr. To leave undecided or unsettled. Because the committee could not decide on a time and place, the matter of the spring dance was left hanging. Ted s mother didn t know what to do about the broken… …   Словарь американских идиом

• leave\ hanging\ in\ the\ air — • leave hanging • leave hanging in the air v. phr. To leave undecided or unsettled. Because the committee could not decide on a time and place, the matter of the spring dance was left hanging. Ted s mother didn t know what to do about the broken… …   Словарь американских идиом

• leave hanging — or[leave hanging in the air] {v. phr.} To leave undecided or unsettled. * /Because the committee could not decide on a time and place, the matter of the spring dance was left hanging./ * /Ted s mother didn t know what to do about the broken… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• leave hanging — or[leave hanging in the air] {v. phr.} To leave undecided or unsettled. * /Because the committee could not decide on a time and place, the matter of the spring dance was left hanging./ * /Ted s mother didn t know what to do about the broken… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• The Art of the Matter — is short story in Frederick Forsyth s book The Veteran (2001). Set around the turn of the millennium in London, it tells the story of a middle aged, impoverished, out of work actor, Trumpington Gore, who seeks revenge after being defrauded by the …   Wikipedia