nail someone to the wall
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Verb[edit]
nail someone to the wall (third-person singular simple present nails someone to the wall, present participle nailing someone to the wall, simple past and past participle nailed someone to the wall)
- to punish or discipline extremely harshly
- 2000, Alvin L. Ureles, The Mizar Project, page 209:
- They would find him with the file he never sent in, nail him to the wall. There would be no time for explanations. His unmarked body would be found floating down the Charles