lock someone up and throw away the key

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Verb

lock someone up and throw away the key (third-person singular simple present locks someone up and throws away the key, present participle locking someone up and throwing away the key, simple past locked someone up and threw away the key, past participle locked someone up and thrown away the key)

1. (slang, idiomatic) To lock someone up in prison indefinitely.

Related terms

• throw away the key