ride on a rail

To be punished harshly, often publicly, and perhaps culminating in exile. The phrase originally referred to a punishment in which a wrongdoer was paraded around town on a rail and then exiled. Now that this scandal is public knowledge, I'm afraid that I'm going to ride on a rail before it's all over.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Marika	MAH-ree-kah (Finnish)	Czech, Slovak, Polish, Hungarian, Greek, Finnish, Estonian
Leudbald	-	Ancient Germanic
Weronika	ve-raw-NEE-kah (Polish)	Polish, Sorbian
Manda	-	Croatian, Serbian
Frans	FRAHNS (Dutch, Finnish)	Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish
Pru	PROO	English