does time
Sits in prison
Does time means serves a prison sentence.
The phrase treats incarceration as something to be endured or worked through, like a job or obligation: He did time for armed robbery.
She's doing time at a federal facility.
The expression can extend to any period of obligatory confinement or tedious duty: I did my time in that dead-end job.
- incarcerationConfinement in jail
- locked upConfined or secured
- prison cellLocked room for inmates
- wallVertical enclosing structure
- guardWatchful defensive attention
prison yard · duration · counting days · probation · early release · cell · behind bars · recidivism · penitentiary · solitary confinement · parole · eternity · rehabilitation · lock · sentencing · boredom · bars · conviction