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hanger and flogger

noun

Definitions

  1. A person who is in favor of severe criminal penalties, especially capital punishment or…

    A person who is in favor of severe criminal penalties, especially capital punishment or corporal punishment.

    • I am certainly not a hanger and flogger and I hate the occasions when we have to deprive someone of their liberty, but sometimes that has to be done.
    • Kenneth Clarke yesterday intensified his assault on Iain Duncan Smith when he dismissed his rival for the Tory leadership as a rightwing "hanger and flogger".

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