throw the book at

To give someone the maximum sentence for a crime or penalize very harshly.

Marty really got screwed over that jaywalking charge when the judge threw the book at him and gave him a life sentence in the federal do-me-in-the-ass prison.

throw the book at by Nick D August 26, 2004

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