hangman's knot
Americannoun
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At this point the legal tangle begins to look painfully like a hangman's knot.
From Time Magazine Archive
We are not even on speaking terms; yet he is childless, and may feel some measure of dislike to have the family end in a hangman's knot.
From Wolves of the Sea Being a Tale of the Colonies from the Manuscript of One Geoffry Carlyle, Seaman, Narrating Certain Strange Adventures Which Befell Him Aboard the Pirate Craft "Namur" by Parrish, Randall
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