you might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
also you might as well be hung for a sheep as for a lamb UK sayingsaid to mean that because the punishment for a bad action and an even worse one will be the same, you have no reason not to do the worse one
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Punishing & punishments
- bar
- be brought/called to account idiom
- boot
- bring
- bum rap
- carrot
- chastise
- clobber
- crucify
- heads will roll! idiom
- kick
- kick (some) ass idiom
- non-custodial
- parking ticket
- penal
- string
- strip
- throw
- throw the book at sb idiom
- wheel clamp
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