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yanx

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When people talk about what they are going as for Halloween, if someone says "You two are going to costume jail for life", what does that mean?

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When people talk about what they are going as for Halloween, if someone says "You two are going to costume jail for life", what does that mean?

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It doesn't mean anything to me.
 

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In what context did you encounter this sentence, yanx?
 

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I suppose the speaker meant that their costumes were so extremely bad that they deserved a very severe punishment.
 

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I agree with Probus - the only reason (if what the Thread-starter is saying is true) someone could be sent to "costume-jail" is the person's poor outfit.
 

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Someone has missed out the more common "costume-police" before inventing "costume-jail". Actually 'costume-police' isn't that common either, but it is common to add '-police' to describe people who make sure everything is legitimate, like us grammar-police. 'Fashion-police' is also common. It's usually a derogatory term, like most 'police' derivatives.
 
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