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(figuratively, idiomatic) In jail, in prison.
Leading Jordanian exponents of the Salafi-jihadi world view, such as Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, are now behind bars or silent, fearing arrest by the powerful mukhabarat secret police.
2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2019:There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.
1905 April–October, Upton Sinclair, chapter XXVII, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906, →OCLC:Some 460,000 Americans are behind bars for drug offenses--a tenfold increase over 1980.
2001 May 7, Margot Roosevelt et al., “The War Against The War On Drugs”, in TIME, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2012:
Translations (40)
uk за ґра́тами (in jail or prison) · cmn 身陷囹圄 (in jail or prison) · es entre rejas (in jail or prison) · cmn 關在監牢裡 /关在监牢里 (in jail or prison) · is bakvið lás og sleggju (in jail or prison) · el στη φυλακή (in jail or prison) · ca a la garjola (in jail or prison) · tl himas-rehas (in jail or prison) · es tras las rejas (in jail or prison) · fi vankilassa (in jail or prison) · ko 감옥에서 (in jail or prison) · ar خَلْفَ الْقُضْبَان (in jail or prison) · sh иза решетака (in jail or prison) · lv aiz restēm (in jail or prison) · he מֵאֲחוֹרֵי סוֹרָג וּבְרִיחַ (in jail or prison) · sv bakom lås och bom (in jail or prison) · fi kalterien takana (in jail or prison) · ru за решёткой (in jail or prison) · be за кра́тамі (in jail or prison) · fr au violon (in jail or prison) · it dietro le sbarre (in jail or prison) · bg зад реше́тките (in jail or prison) · da bag tremmer (in jail or prison) · nl achter de tralies (in jail or prison) · fr derrière les barreaux (in jail or prison) · sk za mrežami (in jail or prison) · hu rács mögött (in jail or prison) · pl za kratkami (in jail or prison) · ro după gratii (in jail or prison) · pt atrás das grades (in jail or prison) · de hinter Gitter (in jail or prison) · te కటకటాల్లో (in jail or prison) · nb bak lås og slå (in jail or prison) · id di balik jeruji besi (in jail or prison) · ja 獄中で (in jail or prison) · nn bak lås og slå (in jail or prison) · fi telkien takana (in jail or prison) · az dəmir barmaqlıq arxasında (in jail or prison) · cs za mřížemi (in jail or prison) · ar وَرَاءَ الْقُضْبَان (in jail or prison)