rot in jail, prison, etc.
to stay in prison for a very long time:
Ruben Carter was left to rot in jail for most of his life.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Putting people in prison
- at His/Her Majesty's pleasure idiom
- bang
- bang sb up
- bar
- behind bars idiom
- bird
- hold
- immured
- imprison
- incarcerate
- internment
- jail
- lock
- pen
- remand
- restraint
- rot
- send
- send sb down
- serve
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