自分の首を絞める

じぶんのくびをしめる

to ask for trouble, to dig your own grave, to cut your own throat

真綿で首を絞める

まわたでくびをしめる

to drag things out, to creep up slowly on the point, to strangle (execute) slowly with a silk cord (instead of quickly with a rope)

絞首

こうしゅ

hanging, strangling to death

首を縮める

くびをちぢめる

to duck one's head

絞首台

こうしゅだい

gallows

絞首刑

こうしゅけい

death by hanging

絞首索

こうしゅさく

hangman's noose; halter

絞める

しめる

to strangle, to constrict

首が絞まる

くびがしまる

to have one's neck wrung

首をすくめる

くびをすくめる

to duck one's head; to pull in one's head; to duck down; to shrug one's shoulders

液を絞る

えきをしぼる

to squeeze the juice (from)

油を絞る

あぶらをしぼる

to chew out, to reprimand severely, to rake over the coals, to give a sound scolding, to tell someone off, to scold, to rebuke

的を絞る

まとをしぼる

to narrow in (on), to home in, to focus, to target

袂を絞る

たもとをしぼる

to shed many tears, to weep, to wring dry one's sleeve (which has been soaked by tears)

首を吊る

くびをつる

to hang (e.g. oneself)

首を取る

くびをとる

to decapitate; to take (someone's) head off

首を振る

くびをふる

to shake one's head

首を切る

くびをきる

to fire from a job, to dismiss, to discharge

首をやる

くびをやる

to be hanged, to be struck dead, to eat one's hat