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| time lag | |
| booby trap(noun, capture, apprehension, seizure) | |
| cooling-off period(noun, check, delay, stay) | |
| holding back(noun, imprisonment, custody, confinement) | |
| holding pattern(noun, check, delay, stay) | |
| holding pen(noun, arrest, imprisonment, custody) | |
| house of correction(noun, idiom, prison) | |
| keeping in(noun, arrest, imprisonment, custody) | |
| pick up(noun, arrest, capture, apprehension) | |
| preventive custody(noun, idiom, arrest, capture) | |
| protective custody(noun, arrest, capture, apprehension) | |
| pull in(noun, capture, apprehension, seizure) | |
| putting off(noun, check, delay, stay) | |
| run in(noun, arrest, capture, apprehension) | |
| stay of execution | |
| striking back(support, fight, opposition, resistance) | |
| term of imprisonment | |
| time up the river(noun, idiom, arrest, imprisonment) | |
| warding off(support, fight, opposition, resistance) | |
| black hole(idiom, prison) |
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