"send s.o. over"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/19/2008 05:40 PM, Geoffrey Nunberg wrote:
>"Yes, angel, I'm gonna send you over," Humphrey Bogart says to Mary
>Astor in The Maltese Falcon. In context, it's clear that what he
>means is "turn you in to the police,"

I always thought it meant "send you to the Great Beyond" -- that is,
to the electric chair (or whatever California used then).

Joel

>but I can't find this sense for
>'send over' in any dictionary or slang dictionary (memo to JL: Vol. 3
>can't come a moment too soon). Was this a one-off?
>
>Geoff Nunberg
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