behind the wire
(slang) In a prison camp or refugee camp.
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#1·Apr 26, 2026
(slang) In a prison camp or refugee camp.
Some were to find themselves behind the wire for virtually the entire war.
Origin: A reference to the chain-link fence that surrounds a prison camp. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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#2·Apr 26, 2026
(by extension, slang) In prison.
The Archive has over two hundred of them — men, women and children who spent years behind the wire and yet lived to tell us their stories . . . and the stories of those people they do not want forgotten.
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