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Idiom
Do time.
(UK) When someone is doing time, they are in prison.
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"I'd be doing time".
"That goniff who should be doing time, chopping rocks, making license plates, somehow slipped out of his apartment confinement and he's treating himself to a shore dinner".
The moralising and disproportionately heavy sentencing means that, as Aaron says "the kids, they're just going to be doing time now, it's just causing a bigger gap.
We'd both be doing time on the damp metal bleachers, as I still hadn't remembered to buy the folding camp chairs.
These men should be doing time for breaking the law and screwing people over.
Carla stated it best: "Give it up folks: If we were perfect we would not be doing time on planet Earth.
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Dan White is doing time for tax evasion.
Mr. Colón, a restaurant manager, was there to visit an old friend who was doing time.
Some were doing time in prison and were voluntarily deported in exchange for reduced sentences.
"I've been doing time here for 18 years," he said.
David Butler is doing time now, too, though not in the same place as Dan White.
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