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Submitted by Fa Ri Da on 2017-03-11

Idiomatic translations of "behind bars"

Finnish
kiven sisässä
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French
derrière les barreaux
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French
en taule
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German
hinter Gittern
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German
Hinter schwedischen Gardinen
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Hebrew
מאחורי סריג ובריח
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Hindi
सलाखों के पीछे
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Italian
Dietro le sbarre
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Portuguese
atrás das grades
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Romanian
După gratii
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Italian, Romanian #1, #2

Meanings of "behind bars"

English

in jail

Explained by Fa Ri DaFa Ri Da on Sat, 11/03/2017 - 21:28
Explained by Fa Ri DaFa Ri Da
English

jail in a local police station

Explained by Ramesh MehtaRamesh Mehta on Sat, 28/12/2019 - 14:03
Explained by Ramesh MehtaRamesh Mehta
Estonian

trellide taha

Explained by Guest on Tue, 15/08/2017 - 21:05
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Greek

Πίσω απ'τα σίδερα, στη φυλακή.

Explained by StavroulaStavroula on Sun, 12/03/2017 - 20:31
Explained by StavroulaStavroula
Persian

پشت میله‌های زندان

Explained by Guest on Sat, 25/07/2020 - 08:54
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"behind bars" in lyrics

Rihanna - Man Down

Can't get it out my mind
I need to get outta sight
'Fore I end up behind bars

Pornofilmy - This will pass

A wet plastic bag on its head
Electric shock marks on its hands
My Russia is behind bars
But trust me

Connor Spiotto - The Villian I Appear To Be

Movin' along, no I won't settle down
Until I'm locked behind bars or I'm kicked outta town
So you can keep on a runnin' around and around and around

K.I.Z. - Blackout

Punch you back to Stuttgart, push you in front of U8 while drunk
Your corpse in the city, my girl texts me she's breaking up with me
I wake up in jail, behind bars like an orangutan
I thank the Vodka-E for my prior conviction, ey

Soolking - Milano

[Chorus]
La la la la la, it is either rich or behind bars,
La la la la la, living deluxe, shopping in Milano,

Otava Yo - Sumetskaya

So that my belly wouldn’t ache,
Let the people judge us,
Let’s get merry behind bars.

Sarettii - Matador

police is coming hurry up
The worst/biggest aura here anyway
The best kid behind bars
"Duron" (idk, the duro?) behind the scooter,

Zaho - Kif n dir

I muse at the airplanes through the window
Behind bars, me, who wants to escape
I never felt like submitting myself

Shawn Sung - Life's a Struggle

I almost suffocate in the dead air of the court
Facing a life sentence, I finally began to think
Behind bars, nothing is the same
There is no peace in the eyes of the damned

José María Napoleón - Little Bird

the onlookers beneath that streetlight.
Night after night, she was arrested twenty times
and she sang her song behind bars.

Kino - City

I look at the calendar, I know that winter is coming.
Our street changes colors in front of our eyes.
Behind bars of yellow foliage, I see birds.
My twentieth autumn drives me crazy.

Ricardo Arjona - My Country

Leaving my knees in the asphalt
The nun that used to pull my ears
Or the friend that I saw behind bars
Everything was left there

France Gall - Diego (Free in his head)

Behind bars
For some words
That he thought so loudly.
Outside, outside it's hot

Arkady Severny - Steam Engine, Slow Down

And my life is now an endless game.

And if I am captured and locked in behind bars,
I'll break these bars in my prison cell,

Extremoduro - Jesus Christ García

I'm Evaristo, the king of the deck (of cards)
I live behind bars, I was a body man before
Merchants occupied my temple

Le Groupe Swing - Face to Face

The more you do your show, the more you want your dose
Whether it's true or false, you don't choose your words
The next level, is behind bars

Johnny Hallyday - Diego

Behind bars
For few words
That he thought so hard.
Outside it's hot

Michel Berger - Diego (Free in his mind)

Behind bars
Because of a few words
He though so loudly
Outside, outside it's hot

Ledri Vula - All my friends

One is really brave with many friends
And this Raki that I drink
Goes to my lads behind bars
And this song and this text

Bushido - Ching Ching

And this climate forces you to dream about your homeland/home
everything here makes you se depressive, but nobody sees it
Again christmas behind bars, how the time goes by
And yeas, you grieve, your parents are disappointed