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tinapril
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 Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 8:23 pm Post subject: 1 question |
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Hi dear teachers,
Is it natural to say "someone backed in the slammer again" ?
or is there any slang for it?
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CP
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Not quite.
You can say, "Well, Joe got busted (arrested) last Saturday. He's back in the slammer / the hoosegow / jail / the gray-bar motel / chokey / the can / the hole again."
You don't want to say that Joe backed into jail, because that means he walked backward or drove his car backward into jail.
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tinapril
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| see, thx! |
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