lock someone up and throw away the key (English, verb)
expansion: 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)
Senses:
glosses: To lock someone up in prison indefinitely.
tags: idiomatic
slang
Forms:
form: locks someone up and throws away the key
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: locking someone up and throwing away the key
tags: participle
present
form: locked someone up and threw away the key
tags: past
form: locked someone up and thrown away the key
tags: participle
past