English Explanatory Dictionary

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

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

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

Etymology

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

Related words

crime doesn't pay
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