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enough rope, give someone
enough rope, give someone
Allow someone to continue on a course and then suffer its consequences. For example, The auditor knew something was wrong but decided to give the chief accountant enough rope . This expression, a shortening of enough rope to hang oneself, was already proverbial in John Ray's English Proverbs (1678).
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Ailill | | AL-yil | Irish, Irish Mythology |
Veikko | | VAYK-ko | Finnish |
Bergman | | ['bə:gmən] | |
Varuna | | - | Hinduism |
SzilÁRd | | - | Hungarian |
Frederica | | frə-də-REE-kə (Portuguese), fred-REE-ka (English), fred-ə-REE-kə (English) | Portuguese, English |