if you can't do the time, don't do the crime

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From do time (“to serve a prison sentence”).

Proverb[edit]

if you can't do the time, don't do the crime

  1. One should not carry out an action if one is unwilling to handle the consequences.

See also[edit]

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