at His/Her Majesty's pleasure
UK specializedSomeone who is put in prison at His/Her Majesty's pleasure is kept there until it is officially decided that it is safe to release them:
He was declared insane and ordered to be detained in a mental hospital at Her Majesty's pleasure.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Putting people in prison
- bang
- bang sb up
- bar
- behind bars idiom
- bird
- captivity
- hold
- imprison
- incarcerate
- internment
- jail
- lag
- lock
- pen
- restraint
- rot
- rot in jail, prison, etc. idiom
- send
- send sb down
- serve
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