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Sentence #1203279

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CK CK July 21, 2016, edited July 21, 2016 July 21, 2016 at 9:21:46 PM UTC, edited July 21, 2016 at 9:33:41 PM UTC link Permalink

Annotation:

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"Behind bars" means "in prison" or "in jail."

Find other sentences with this phrase using the following search.

https://tatoeba.org/eng/sentenc...io=&sort=words


2.

"For good" means "forever".

You can find other sentences with this phrase. However, a couple of these have "good" modifying a noun, so they don't have this same idiomatic meaning.

https://tatoeba.org/eng/sentenc...io=&sort=words

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If you testify against him we can put him behind bars for good.

added by darinmex, October 28, 2011

If you testify against him, we can put him behind bars for good.

edited by darinmex, November 10, 2012