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Up the river

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  1. 1
    To prison. US, idiomatic

    "The former baseball player that Cincinnati idolized is being sent up the river to Ashland, Ky., to serve a prison term for cheating on his taxes."

Etymology

A reference to Sing Sing prison, which is located on the Hudson river, to the north of (and upstream from) New York City.

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