英语词汇“to send down the river”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

> as lemmas

to send down the river

c. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). to send down the river: to send to prison. Cf. up the river at Phrases 6.

ΚΠ

1894 Atlantic Rep. 27 391/2 The witness..has testified here that he heard the chief say that he had got H. H. Hollister, and was going to send him down the river, whether guilty or not.

1910 Southern Rep. 50 781/2 Latham was guilty and, should he be a juror, he would send him down the river.

1974 Times 31 Jan. 4/5 He had overheard Miss Jones threatening Mr Dee ‘to send him down the river for life’.

1987 J. Barnao LockeStep xi. 115 You don't send a bunch of Godfathers down the river for twenty years without making some serious enemies.

extracted from rivern.¹

as lemmas

单词	to send down the river
释义	> as lemmas to send down the river c. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). to send down the river: to send to prison. Cf. up the river at Phrases 6. ΚΠ 1894 Atlantic Rep. 27 391/2 The witness..has testified here that he heard the chief say that he had got H. H. Hollister, and was going to send him down the river, whether guilty or not. 1910 Southern Rep. 50 781/2 Latham was guilty and, should he be a juror, he would send him down the river. 1974 Times 31 Jan. 4/5 He had overheard Miss Jones threatening Mr Dee ‘to send him down the river for life’. 1987 J. Barnao LockeStep xi. 115 You don't send a bunch of Godfathers down the river for twenty years without making some serious enemies. extracted from rivern.¹ < as lemmas
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