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In Australia they say 'up sh.. creek without a paddle'.
Here we just say "up shit creek" when we mean in trouble. As for jail, I can't think of any that haven't been mentioned. Unless you count calling them by name.
That reminds me. In Manitoba, when someone is acting crazy and should be sent to the nuthouse, we talk about "sending them to Selkirk" (which is where the "insane asylum" is). In Alberta, you send people "to Ponoka" instead. (I can't remember where they go in Saskatchewan.) Do people in other places talk about this in the same way, using the name of the local psychiatric hospital as a threat/joke?
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Bean,
Yep. Here in Georgia we talk about sending 'em to Milledgeville.
hi F!
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sending 'em to Milledgeville.
Mill'd GeVille (hard g)?
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In NYC-- send them to Bellview.. (which is on the east river at about 27th street-- and while the area across the river is an industrial park-- it does still have a Bell view.)
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--> Gray-bar Hotel In Michigan, we refer to people becoming a guest of the state in Jackson. The Jackson state prison is (was?) the world's largest walled prison. http://home.att.net/~redsmith/prison/pri1106.jpg
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In the Navy,small offence = the brig, big one Portsmouth.
In the Army, small offence = guardhouse, big one Leavenworth.
Dear wwh, Portsmouth Naval Prison in Kittery Maine, was closed about 30 years ago!
And yes, it's the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and it is in Kittery, Maine. The thinking is that bases in early days of the republic were named for the nearest large city.
And as a point of interest Barracks Two for the U.S. Marine Corps is at Portsmouth N.S.
My-son-the-Major went to Command & Staff College at Fort Leavenworth which is an old post and much of it is quite beautiful. They have a Museum on post if you're in Kansas and interested militariana.
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In Michigan, we refer to people becoming a guest of the state
The equivalent here has a much classier ring. To say that someone is "a guest of Her Majesty" almost sounds flattering, no?
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To say that someone is "a guest of Her Majesty" almost sounds flattering, no? Yeah.  I first came across that expression last year, in The Professor and the Madman.
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sending 'em to Milledgeville.
Faldage inquires: Mill'd GeVille (hard g)?
I'll never look at Millige-ville again in the same light.
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"a guest of Her Majesty"
The phrase we often hear here is "detained at her Majesty's pleasure" which sounds too much like "for Her Majesty's pleasure" to me. I suppose whether the detained would also get some pleasure out of the experience depends on how closely their specific tastes match.
Rod
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