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river `noun` [ ˈrɪvə ]

• a large natural stream of water flowing in a channel to the sea, a lake, or another river.

• "the River Danube"

Similar: watercourse, waterway, stream, tributary, brook, inlet, rivulet, rill, runnel, streamlet, freshet, canal, channel, burn, beck, bourn, creek, billabong, rillet,

Origin: Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, based on Latin riparius, from ripa ‘bank of a river’.

sell someone down the river

• betray someone, especially so as to benefit oneself.
"he said they were management lackeys who had been sold down the river by Bunker"

up the river

• to or in prison.
"we were lucky not to be sent up the river that time boy"

river noun [ ˈrɪvə ]

sell someone down the river

up the river

river `noun` [ ˈrɪvə ]