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go to the chair

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by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates

[go to the chair] {v. phr.}

To be executed in the electric chair.

* /After many stays of execution, the criminal finally had to go to the chair./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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