a short drop and a sudden stop

Etymology
Popular due to the internal rhyme of with.

Noun
> Punning now… it’d be a capital idea, there. Let’s not start _that_ row. Give it a quick drop and a sudden stop, rather than letting them hang…
 * 1)  A fall to one's death by hanging.
 * 2) * 2005 January 8, “Bookman”, alt.fan.heinlein (Google group): Clarke Survives Tsunamis:
 * > But, yeah, the death penalty is a little stiff just for pretentious writing.
 * 1) * 2005 January 8, “Bookman”, alt.fan.heinlein (Google group): Clarke Survives Tsunamis:
 * > But, yeah, the death penalty is a little stiff just for pretentious writing.
 * 1) * 2006 Hirchak, John Hirchak. Ghosts of Old Wilmington, page 27 (The History Press; ISBN 1596291508, ISBN 9781596291508):
 * If you were lucky enough to survive all this lunacy, you always risked capture. There your story would end with a quick drop and a sudden stop, for piracy was punishable by hanging.