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 Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 3:42 pm Post subject: |
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A few hundred years ago in England, thieves were sentenced to death by hanging. It was an experiment that proved that stealing was not a genetic disease. Anyway, the thief would hang whether he had stolen a little baby lamb or a big, grown-up sheep.
If someone is going to do something that might have bad consequences, and he says something like your sentence, he means he might as well go whole-hog, pull out all the stops, do it in a big way. If he is caught or fails, he'll suffer the same consequences anyway.
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