BURN IN EFFIGY


Meaning of BURN IN EFFIGY in English

{v. phr.} To hang or burn a figure, usually a stuffed dummy, representing a person who is disliked or scorned. * /When the high school team lost the championship game, the coach was hung in effigy by the townspeople./ * /During World War II, Hitler was sometimes burned in effigy in the United States./

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