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    serve time

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    A2
    v.t./i.Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)To spend time in prison as a punishment for a crime
    He had to serve time for robbery

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    Real English: What you need to know if you're going to court

    16:50Real English: What you need to know if you're going to court
    • and you're going to serve "time". Okay? You go to prison and you serve time.

      and you're going to serve "time". Okay? You go to prison and you serve time.

    • and that means you serve time in prison. Now,

      and that means you serve time in prison. Now,

    A2

    Tokyo Summer Escape: Karuizawa Day Trip | japan-guide.com

    05:09Tokyo Summer Escape: Karuizawa Day Trip | japan-guide.com
    • For exciting times, make it mocha soft serve time.

      For exciting times, make it mocha soft serve time.

    B1

    What If You Had To Escape Prison? (FUNNY ANIMATION)

    05:27What If You Had To Escape Prison? (FUNNY ANIMATION)
    • With many reports over the years showing that they are some of the most violent places to serve time in the world.

      With many reports over the years showing that they are some of the most violent places to serve time in the world.

    B1

    Stop Giving People Control Over Your Life | The Philosophy of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    06:22Stop Giving People Control Over Your Life | The Philosophy of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    • He wrote, All the writers who wrote about prison, but who did not themselves serve time there, considered it their duty to express sympathy for prisoners and to curse prison.

      He wrote, All the writers who wrote about prison, but who did not themselves serve time there, considered it their duty to express sympathy for prisoners and to curse prison.

    B1