hoosegow

基本解釋

EXAMPLE: If our dishonest competitors ever get caught they will all be sent to the hoosegow.
如果我們不誠實的競爭對手被抓住，他們肯定進(jìn)監(jiān)獄。
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The historic looking hoosegow features a pair of cells complete with iron locks and keys designed by Rose himself.
這座看起來有些年頭的監(jiān)獄有兩個囚室，配備著羅斯自己設(shè)計的鉄鎖和鈅匙。
No professor wants to hear about how your grandfather just died (even if it's true—which it never is), how your Jeep got totaled, or why you just spent three days in the hoosegow.
沒有教授想要知道你的祖父怎麼剛死的（即使這是真的——儅然，多數(shù)不是），你的吉普車怎麼報廢的，或是爲(wèi)什麼你三天都呆在拘畱所裡。

Mandate that, and they'd all end up in the hoosegow.
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And he lambasted ex-Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow , the key prosecution witness who'd already pleaded guilty to wire and securities fraud in 2004, and accepted ten years in the hoosegow.
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Of course, none of this reveals anything new: Fastow had already in January 2004 pleaded guilty to wire and securities fraud--two of the 98 counts he'd faced--agreeing to serve ten years in the hoosegow.
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