- send him up
- send him to prison, find evidence to convict him
The criminal threatened to kill the policeman who sent him up.
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send */*/*/ — UK [send] / US verb [transitive] Word forms send : present tense I/you/we/they send he/she/it sends present participle sending past tense sent UK [sent] / US past participle sent 1) to post a letter or parcel to someone I sent the letters… … English dictionary
send to heaven — to kill A Christian might also be sent home, to heaven, to his last or long account, or to the skies, and an American Indian, in a Western at least, to his happy hunting grounds: Now I seemed to see that warrior that my hand had sent to … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
send about one's business — If you tell someone, in an irritated or unfriendly way, to go away, yousend them about their business. An insurance company representative keeps calling on my mother, but I told her to send him about his business … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
