send someone up (the river)

send someone 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.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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