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behind bars
Idioms and Phrases
In prison, as in All murderers should be put behind bars for life . The bars here refer to the iron rods used to confine prisoners. [c. 1900]Example Sentences
Rapper Young Thug, months after the end of his long-winding racketeering case, could soon find himself back behind bars.
Still, the arrangement raises ethical questions about who should benefit from work prisoners do behind bars.
Inside the penitentiary, with a backdrop of heavily tattooed prisoners stacked behind bars, Noem went on X to deliver a warning.
The BBC explores how police put him behind bars despite having no DNA evidence.
But Thomas reunited with Curry while he was behind bars and secretly married him without telling her family in 2023, Rojo said.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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