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Discover LudwigThe phrase "do time" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is most commonly used in informal or slang contexts to mean serving a prison sentence. Here is an example sentence: "The convicted criminal will have to do time in prison for his crimes."
Idiom
Do time.
(UK) When someone is doing time, they are in prison.
Dictionary
do time
verb
To spend time in prison (as a prisoner).
Exact(49)
DOmin, minimal dissolved oxygen (DO) during the fermentation run; t(<40% DO), time period where DO was below 40%; estim.
You can do time".
"Did I do time?
We're trying to do time traveling here".
He did not do time on Robben Island but did do time, of sorts.
And so we do, time after time.
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But rest assured: several of the contributors knew how to do time-lapse shots of gathering clouds.
OF ALL the tedious tasks that lawyers have to do, time-recording is perhaps the most deadly.
You can even do time-lapse recording.
High resolution, continuous DO time-series will facilitate a dynamic assessment of the general health of streams and river ecosystems.
"Normally we'd have to go out and do time-consuming ground truthing.
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