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Idioms and Phrases
Released from custody on the basis of bail being posted, as in The lawyer promised to get him out on bail . This expression alludes to a payment made to the court as surety that the accused will appear for trial.Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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