How do the animals know to come down and get their necks wrung?

The ogre found its hold and Jim felt his neck begin to be slowly twisted, as if it were a chicken's neck being wrung in slow motion.

"Unwary nightbirds get their necks wrung," said one, and went through the motions of wringing, with lean and dirty hands.

By noon they are filled beyond flying so that toddling children can lift them off the ground and carry them home to have their necks wrung.

"We were warned that there would be some necks wrung if that phrase was used in our report," Rushmore said sourly.

In June 1940 Petain and his generals told Churchill that "in three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken".

A quick snatch, a squawk, a twist, and Blade had the bird in hand, its neck neatly wrung.

Somebody on deck let out a strangled squawk, like a chicken with its neck being wrung.

Lukashenko reacted by saying that anyone going to opposition protests would have their necks wrung "as one might a duck".