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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary

do the time

Hi,

He is very unsympathetic and insists that since Tom did the crime, he must do the time.

What does 'do the time' mean here?

Thanks a lot.
  

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Hi, Spend the time ,that he is sentenced to, in prison. Hence the little saying, If you can't do the time, Don't do the crime. Clive

— Clive

  • Hi, Spend the time ,that he is sentenced to, in prison.
  • Hence the little saying, If you can't do the time, Don't do the crime.
  • Clive
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Hi,
Spend the time ,that he is sentenced to, in prison.

Hence the little saying,

If you can't do the time,
Don't do the crime.


Clive
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Go to prison. Do time in prison.
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Hi Clive and Vorpar,
Thank you both very much for telling me the meaning.
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