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Turned Brother In Law Assault Customer Give Turn

Sentence He turned his brother-in-law in for seeing him assault a customer.
Definition (
transitive
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,
idiomatic
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) to
relinquish
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; give up; to
tell on
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someone to the
authorities
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(especially to turn someone in)

Tags: turn, in

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