be drawn and quartered

1. To be disemboweled and then beheaded and dismembered. This criminal is to be drawn and quartered, so once they take him from the gallows, they will pull out his entrails before removing his head and limbs by ax. Sire, I would encourage you to be polite to the king—his enemies have been drawn and quartered before. A: "They would behead me for this?" B: "Oh no, you'd be drawn and quartered—so you would be disemboweled first, then beheaded."

2. To kill a prisoner by tying each limb to a different horse and then sending each horse in a different direction. When he's drawn and quartered, the horses will pull his body apart in a most gruesome scene. Is there any way you can escape the jail? If you're found guilty of treason, you'll be drawn and quartered! Why are there horses here? Oh my God, I'm going to be drawn and quartered, aren't I?

3. By extension, to receive an exceptionally severe punishment. You'll be drawn and quartered when Mom and Dad find out that you took the car without telling them! I crashed the computer system for the whole company? Oh my gosh, I'm going to be drawn and quartered by the boss, aren't I? You'll be drawn and quartered for this, you snake in the grass! You'll never work in this industry again!