up the river

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介词短语
  1. To prison. US,idiomatic
    — The former baseball player that Cincinnati idolized is being sent up the river to Ashland, Ky., to serve a prison term for cheating on his taxes.

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A reference to Sing Sing prison, which is located on the Hudson river, to the north of (and upstream from) New York City.
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