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Usage examples of "put behind bars".
Which means, apparently, that he is now available to testify for the prosecution in every Watergate-related trial from now until all his old friends and conspirators are either put behind bars with a Gideon Bible in their hands or standing in line at a soup kitchen in Butte, Montana.
Everybody wants the Blaylocks put behind bars and they kick my ass for takin’.
The big one will hear of it instantly and have Heller put behind bars immediately.
It would take him a while to calm down, after the shock of being put behind bars, and I couldnt afford to wait around.
Charlie Bauman had been a United States attorney prosecuting federal cases until he decided to make five times the money defending the same guys he'd once tried to put behind bars.
He bears no resemblance to his two brothers I put behind bars, who were Grade A vicious sadists.
Was it some criminal Ross had put behind bars in the past, trying to kill the sheriff for revenge?
And if that had been disclosed back in 1975 or even '76, maybe, just maybe, it could have led to Marshall being put behind bars years ago.
John and I recognized no fewer than five of them -- two of them we've personally put behind bars.