in the frame

English

Prepositional phrase

in the frame

  1. (colloquial) Suspected by the police of having committed a crime.
    • 2021, Chris McDonald, Mistletoe and Crime:
      Colin just told me about some lad he played football with last night who beat Gerald up a month or so ago, but I don't think he's in the frame.

References
  • Tony Thorne (2014) “in the frame”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  […]: Bloomsbury
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