надевать петлю на себя

• НАДЕВАТЬ/НАДЕТЬ <НАКИДЫВАТЬ/НАКИНУТЬ> ПЕТЛЮ <ПЕТЛИ> НА СЕБЯ <СЕБЕ НА ШЕЮ, НА ШЕЮ кому>

[VP; subj: human]

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⇒ to create an extremely difficult, hopeless situation for o.s. or another:

- X надел петлю на себя (Y-y на шею) ≈ X put a noose around his (Y's) neck;

- X stuck his (own) neck (Y's neck) in the (a) noose;

- X slipped a noose on himself (on Y).

     ♦ Да вот что: не потому ли Парвус так и старается, чтоб именно - Ленина замарать с собою вместе? Вот такой индивидуально-семейной поездкой накинуть петлю - а потом и в руки взять? а потом и условия диктовать - как революцию вести? (Солженицын 5). Perhaps that was it: perhaps Parvus was going to so much trouble simply so that Lenin would be tarred with the same brush? Perhaps Parvus had arranged this individual and family journey to slip a noose on him and then take him in hand? Dictate conditions, tell him how to conduct the revolution? (5a).