put (someone) behind bars

To arrest someone and hold him or her in prison; to sentence someone to serve time in prison. I heard that they put Mike's uncle behind bars for robbing a liquor store! The cops put our son behind bars on a charge of drunk driving, so we have to go down to the station to bail him out.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Jourdain	-	French
Alessio	-	Italian
Victorino	beek-to-REE-no (Spanish)	Spanish, Portuguese
Roghayeh	-	Persian
Alphonzo	al-FAHN-zo	English (Rare)
Deodato	-	Portuguese