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Free ice cream. “Receives $X years” Is an idiomatic way of expressing prison terms. Same kind of thing as saying “20 to life”.

• memefrog 3y ago
  It might be idiomatic to you, but it looks bizarre to me. I am a native English speaker.
• mvdtnz 3y ago
  I suspect this is a regional thing. I would never use this supposed idiom and it sounds very off to me.