send up
Verb
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Verb
send up
- (transitive) To imitate someone or something for the purpose of satirical humour.
- The programme accurately sends up the British Civil Service system at Whitehall.
- (transitive, US, slang) To put in prison.
- The judge sent him up for three years
- 1913, Rex Stout, Her Forbidden Knight, 1997 Carroll & Graf edition, ISBN 0786704446, page 161:
- "I guess you're a wise one, all right, but what's the use? I tell you we've got enough on you already to send you up. You might as well talk straight."
- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see send, up
- Fears of war sent oil prices up by 10%.
- Russian: передразнивать
- Russian: приговори́ть к тюремному заключению
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