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
Marcelino	mahr-the-LEE-no (Spanish), mahr-se-LEE-no (Latin American Spanish)	Spanish, Portuguese
BelgİN	-	Turkish
Chryssa	-	Greek
Morpheus	MAWR-fee-əs (English)	Greek Mythology
Annalise	-	English (Modern)
Normina	-	English (Rare)