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
Meredith	['meridiθ]
Delwyn	-	Welsh
Claude	KLOD (French), KLAWD (English)	French, English
Hermenegildo	-	Spanish, Portuguese
Origenes	-	Ancient Greek
Hughard	-	Ancient Germanic