Current Events > Where did the phrase "under the jail" come from?

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I feel like this phrase popped up out of nowhere sometime in the last 5 years or so. Do they mean they want the person executed and buried? It just sounds like an odd thing to say but I keep seeing it more and more often

I am going to guess dungeons, you have the normal jail, then below that the place for the real evil people.

cjsdowg posted...

I am going to guess dungeons, you have the normal jail, then below that the place for the real evil people.

People say it in 2023 about current American prisons though

It's burying a life sentence prisoner in the prison graveyard, literally not even letting them out of prison when they die.

Maybe it regional, but that isn't new to me. So it just like an old saying. In the modern uses of it . People just makes s/he did something so bad, normal jail won't do.

I have never heard this phrase before

There's always money in the banana stand.

I thought that was just an exaggerated phrase.

Like when someone says "Throw the entire bookshelf" as an upgrade to "Throw the book at them".

Send them to jail to die and be buried there, whether in terms of life sentence or death penalty being largely a matter of context.

Literally "imprison this person so thoroughly that even their corpse stays in jail."