"behind bars" meaning in All languages combined

See behind bars on Wiktionary

Prepositional phrase [英語]

Audio: en-au-behind bars.ogg
  1. 坐牢 Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: zh-behind_bars-en-prep_phrase-WpuOtxl9
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): 英語介詞短語, 英語詞元

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          "ref": "2001, Margot Roosevelt et al., \"The War Against The War On Drugs,\" Time, 7 May:",
          "text": "Some 460,000 Americans are behind bars for drug offenses."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Ian Black, \"Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis\", The Guardian, 27 November 2014:",
          "text": "Leading Jordanian exponents of the Salafi-jihadi world view, such as Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, are now behind bars or silent, fearing arrest by the powerful mukhabarat secret police."
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          "ref": "2014, Ian Black, \"Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis\", The Guardian, 27 November 2014:",
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