Cockles.
To cry cockles. To be hanged; from the gurgling noise made in strangulation.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
To cry cockles. To be hanged; from the gurgling noise made in strangulation.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.