The Beeb tell us about their new comedy, “set entirely in the visiting room of a prison”:
Michael has taken the wrap for a jewellery robbery…
Sadly he’s doesn’t appear to be wearing it in the picture.
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“…his refusal to grass…”
This is the first time I encounter this British idiom outside Rumpole’s world. It’s encouraging to know that criminal jargon hasn’t dated. On the other hand, it could be that the author of the piece is just a wee bit out of step with the times as he seems to be out of step with American idioms:
“take the rap (for something):
to be blamed or punished unfairly for something you have not done. Reublinger has often taken the rap for bad decisions made by his boss.
See also: rap, take
Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms ) Cambridge “LikeLike
Mick Hartley 
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