[Ads-l] "bonds out of jail"

[Laurence Horn]

I wonder how long it would take me to stop reading it as "bounds out of jail"...

LH

> On Sep 1, 2016, at 12:41 AM, Dave Hause <dwhause at CABLEMO.NET> wrote:
> 
> Meaning "gets released on bail (bond)" at least as far back as early 70s when I was an Illinois city cop.
> Dave Hause
> -----Original Message----- From: Dan Goncharoff
> Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 10:00 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: "bonds out of jail"
> 
> Saw this in a headline in a Daily Beast e-mail. I am not familiar with the
> usage. 36,500 ghits.
> 
> DanG
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