"up the river" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "A reference to Sing Sing prison, which is located on the Hudson river, to the north of (and upstream from) New York City.",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
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          "name": "American English",
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Prison",
          "orig": "en:Prison",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
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            [
              66,
              78
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1990 July 21, “Pete Rose: He doesn't belong in the Hall of Fame”, in Dallas Morning News, retrieved 23 Sep 2010:",
          "text": "The former baseball player that Cincinnati idolized is being sent up the river to Ashland, Ky., to serve a prison term for cheating on his taxes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To prison."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "prison",
          "prison"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, idiomatic) To prison."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "jail"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "lang_code": "fi",
          "sense": "idiomatic: to prison",
          "word": "telkien taakse"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "lang_code": "fi",
          "sense": "idiomatic: to prison",
          "word": "leivättömän pöydän ääreen"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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  ],
  "word": "up the river"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "A reference to Sing Sing prison, which is located on the Hudson river, to the north of (and upstream from) New York City.",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "jail"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
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        "American English",
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        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English prepositional phrases",
        "English terms with quotations",
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        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "en:Prison"
      ],
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            [
              66,
              78
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1990 July 21, “Pete Rose: He doesn't belong in the Hall of Fame”, in Dallas Morning News, retrieved 23 Sep 2010:",
          "text": "The former baseball player that Cincinnati idolized is being sent up the river to Ashland, Ky., to serve a prison term for cheating on his taxes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To prison."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "prison",
          "prison"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, idiomatic) To prison."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "idiomatic: to prison",
      "word": "telkien taakse"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "idiomatic: to prison",
      "word": "leivättömän pöydän ääreen"
    }
  ],
  "word": "up the river"
}