tarred and feathered

In the early 1790s, Pennsylvania farmers tarred and feathered several government officials sent to collect a new tax on whiskey production.

“But I was still tarred and feathered,” said Hickson.

He wrote that “the entire crew was tarred and feathered” by Captain Schirra’s behavior, although “we were collectively never hauled on the carpet.”

"The weekend press tarred and feathered sterling with assertions of its emerging-market status," he said.

"I got a rope around my neck, and I'm tarred and feathered over an event that's already dead," Harris told the outlet.