hog-tied

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• hog-tied — adj American incapacitated, rendered helpless. Hogs (the standard American term for pigs) were hobbled by having all four legs bound …   Contemporary slang

• hog-tie — (v.) also hogtie, bind hands and feet, 1887, from HOG (Cf. hog) (n.) + TIE (Cf. tie) (v.). Related: Hog tied …   Etymology dictionary

• hog-tie — {v.}, {informal} 1. To tie (an animal) so it is unable to move or escape. * /The Cowboy caught a calf and hog tied it./ 2. To make someone unable to act freely; limit. * /The welfare worker wanted to help at once, but rules and regulations hog… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• hog-tie — {v.}, {informal} 1. To tie (an animal) so it is unable to move or escape. * /The Cowboy caught a calf and hog tied it./ 2. To make someone unable to act freely; limit. * /The welfare worker wanted to help at once, but rules and regulations hog… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• hog-tie — v informal 1. To tie (an animal) so it is unable to move or escape. The Cowboy caught a calf and hog tied it. 2. To make someone unable to act freely; limit. The welfare worker wanted to help at once, but rules and regulations hog tied her, so… …   Словарь американских идиом

• hog-tie — verb tie together somebody s limbs The prisoner was hog tied • Hypernyms: ↑tie down, ↑tie up, ↑bind, ↑truss • Verb Frames: Somebody s somebody They want to hog tie the prisoner …   Useful english dictionary

• Hog Island, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania — Hog Island is the historic name of an area southwest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania along the Delaware River, to the west of the mouth of the Schuylkill River. Philadelphia International Airport now sits on the land that was once Hog… …   Wikipedia

• Hog Wild (1930 film) — Infobox Film name = Hog Wild caption = director = James Parrott producer = Hal Roach writer = H. M. Walker, Stan Laurel starring = Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy music = cinematography = George Stevens editing = Richard Currier distributor = Metro… …   Wikipedia

• hogtie — hog|tie [ hɔg,taı ] (present participle hog|ty|ing; past tense and past participle hog|tied) verb transitive AMERICAN 1. ) to tie a person s hands and feet together behind his or her back, or to tie all four of an animal s feet together 2. )… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

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• Otto Zehm — (1970–2006) was a mentally disabled man from Spokane, Washington who died on March 20, 2006, two days after being beaten, tasered multiple times, and improperly restrained by seven Spokane Police Officers.[1] Zehm committed no crime and on May 30 …   Wikipedia