Serving
Both words in one sentence
- Prushka the Mouse reveals she's serving ten years for telling an "anecdot" - anti-government joke.
Source: What Are You in For? -
Once when she was telling another character about who the doctor was and what she had seen him do, thus accidentally serving the Doctor some spoilers since those things were still in his future.
Source: Stealth Hi/Bye -
In Jasper Fforde's The Fourth Bear, Jack lampshades this by actually telling the psychologist who is evaluating his fitness for duty that she is serving this role.
Source: Threshold Guardians
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