Green’s Dictionary of Slang

three months in prison.

1859, 1860		Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc.
1873		Sl. Dict.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
1942		D. Runyon in Star (Marion, OH) 31 July 6/8: Rhyming slang is not founded upon allegory unless we except a few similes such as [...] ‘sorrowful tale’ for three months in jail.