strung up
adjective
British, informal
: very nervous, excited, or worried
Don't get so strung up about everything.
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But the sentiment behind that particularly memorable piece of graffiti — scrawled near a pile of corpses strung up in a zombie apocalypse — pulses beneath every beat in Bella Ramsey’s wrathful performance.
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 12 May 2025
Bloodlines stars Brec Bassinger and Richard Harmon also break down the movie magic behind some of their biggest action sequences, including a scene that sees Harmon strung up by his nose ring.
—Mike Miller Published, EW.com, 5 May 2025
For decades, his mummified corpse was passed around and sold into traveling carnivals, wax museums and exploitation movies, ultimately landing at an amusement park in Long Beach, California, where McCurdy’s body was painted flaming red and strung up in a haunted house.
—Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2025
Among the propaganda posters strung up by Hamas on Thursday was an image of a vampiric Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looming over an image of the hostages.
—Mick Krever, CNN, 20 Feb. 2025
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 12 May 2025
Bloodlines stars Brec Bassinger and Richard Harmon also break down the movie magic behind some of their biggest action sequences, including a scene that sees Harmon strung up by his nose ring.
—Mike Miller Published, EW.com, 5 May 2025
For decades, his mummified corpse was passed around and sold into traveling carnivals, wax museums and exploitation movies, ultimately landing at an amusement park in Long Beach, California, where McCurdy’s body was painted flaming red and strung up in a haunted house.
—Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2025
Among the propaganda posters strung up by Hamas on Thursday was an image of a vampiric Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looming over an image of the hostages.
—Mick Krever, CNN, 20 Feb. 2025
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“Strung up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/strung%20up. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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