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单词 over the road
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over (also up) the road
P20. U.S. slang. over (also up) the road: to prison; esp. in to send a person over the road. Now chiefly historical.
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1886 F. Pinkerton Dyke Darrel Railroad Detective vi. 27 Dyke Darrel,..the man who has sent more criminals over the road than any other detective in the wide West.
1898 Southern Reporter 23 610/1 He told him to go into court and plead guilty because, If he did not, ‘they would send him up the road or hang him, as Paul Albert had already confessed’.
1903 R. S. McCallen ‘He Demons’ & ‘She Devils’ ix. 112 If he is caught..he will go ‘Over the road’ for at least a year or two.
1935 W. Coburn Law Rides Range 8 Bull Mitchell and their damned money would send Wade over the road.
2007 M. R. Ellis Law & Order in Buffalo Bill's Country v. 176 Marriage reduced one's likelihood of committing a crime and serving time, as only 28 percent of Lincoln County convicts were married when sent ‘over the road’.
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