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Idioms and Phrases

In police custody, as in They put him under arrest and charged him with stealing a car . [Late 1300s]

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When Jackson told him to be quiet, he refused, and Jackson put him under arrest.

Not long afterward, 43-year-old Vann found himself under arrest.

Randolph received a radio message confirming that Nolen was wanted and she moved to place him under arrest.

Mohamed Badie, the supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, was under arrest.

It was clear to those under arrest that they were expecting a lot more prisoners to come.

Both Lawrence and Dan bitterly felt the disgrace of reporting back to Lexington under arrest.

Some of them came to his assistance, conveyed him off in a carriage, and desired the General to consider himself under arrest.

They already knew in Paris that he was under arrest, but at his home they were, happily, still in ignorance.

As I have explained, it is for that reason we do not allow a prisoner's wife to know that he is under arrest.

He was under arrest as one who had placed forged English banknotes in circulation in France!

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