a quick drop and a sudden stop

a quick drop and a sudden stop

Death from either falling from a great height or from hanging. I wouldn't get too close to the edge of that cliff if I were you, you'd have a pretty quick drop and a sudden stop. A: "You guys are already at the scene? OK, what do you think happened to our victim?" B: "Looks like a case of a quick drop and a sudden stop—we hear she had an apartment on the fifty-first floor." People around here used to take the law into their own hands and punish criminals with a quick drop and a sudden stop—if you know what I mean.

See also: and, drop, quick, stop, sudden

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