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send up the river
send up the river
send
someone
up the river
Fig.
to send someone to prison. (Underworld. As done by a judge or indirectly by the police.)
They tried to send me up the river, but my testimony got me off. I'm gonna send you up the river if it's the last thing I do.
See also:
river
,
send
,
up
Common Names:
Name
Gender
Pronounced
Usage
Chas
CHAZ
English
Aleah
ə-LEE-ə
English (Modern)
Ebbe
EB-be
(Swedish)
, E-bə
(German)
Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, German (Rare)
Vilhelm
VEEL-helm
(Finnish)
Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Hungarian
Adenauer
['a:dənauə]
Walerian
vah-LER-yahn
Polish
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