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

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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