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31send up — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms send up : present tense I/you/we/they send up he/she/it sends up present participle sending up past tense sent up past participle sent up informal 1) to make someone seem silly by pretending to speak or behave …
32send someone up the river — tv. to send someone to prison. (Underworld. As done by a judge or indirectly by the po ice.) □ They tried to send me up the river, but my lip got me off. □ I’m gonna send you up the river if it’s the last thing I do …
33send to — phr verb Send to is used with these nouns as the object: ↑front, ↑jail, ↑prison, ↑sleep …
34send down — 1) PHRASAL VERB: usu passive If a student is sent down from their university or college, they are made to leave because they have behaved very badly. [BRIT] [be V ed P] She wondered if he had been sent down for gambling. (in AM, use be expelled)… …
35send up — to pass a prison sentence upon The prisons of New York and New Orleans were upstream of the cities, and convicts were sent up the river or line of which this is a shortened, and confusing, form, meaning the same as send down1 …
36send up — {v. phr.}, {colloquial} To sentence (someone) to prison. * /Did you know that Milton Shaeffer was sent up for fifteen years?/ …
37send up — {v. phr.}, {colloquial} To sentence (someone) to prison. * /Did you know that Milton Shaeffer was sent up for fifteen years?/ …
38send shivers down someone's spine — verb To terrify; to make someone feel extremely nervous. Hearing that the killer escaped prison sent shivers down my spine …
39send\ up — v. phr. colloquial To sentence (someone) to prison. Did you know that Milton Shaeffer was sent up for fifteen years? …
40send up — sentence someone to prison He was sent up for seven years for robbing a bank …
