What does "on the clothesline" mean?
In Donnie Brasco (1997), Lefty asks Donnie about 90 foot boat for Santo Trafficante:
Donnie: No, I'm working on it.
Lefty: Don't tell me no. You got to get that boat. I reached out already. His man says, "Lefty, he loves boats. " I told him a 100-foot boat. I'm on the clothesline now.
What does "on the clothesline" mean?
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It’s a riff on the common expression “to be hung out to dry”, which means he has been put in a difficult or impossible situation by his mob superiors.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hang_out_to_dry
One hangs clothes on a clothesline, so Lefty is saying he was hung out to dry as on a clothesline.
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