| 词汇 | sent up the river |
| 词源 | sent up the river. To be sent to prison. First recorded in the 1930s, this term must be much older. The river referred to is the Hudson in New York City and up it, at Ossining, is Sing Sing Penitentiary, which was founded in 1830. |
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