| 单词 | to take the law into one's own hands |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take the law into one's own hands (or †fists) b. transferred. to take the law into one's own hands (or †fists): to redress one's own grievance, or punish an offender, without obtaining judicial assistance. to have the law in one's own hands: to possess the means of redress, to be master of the situation. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > be in control [verb (intransitive)] stightlea1375 to have the law in one's own hands1573 boss1856 to run the show1878 to call the tunea1915 to carry the ball1924 to run with the ball1926 to call the shots1967 society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > break the law [verb (intransitive)] > take redress without law to take the law into one's own hands (or fists)1847 1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 3 The law was now in there own hands. 1847 E. Brontë Wuthering Heights I. vii. 129 Next time, Master Edgar, take the law into your own fists. 1869 C. M. Yonge Cameos xcii, in Monthly Packet Jan. 32 Cade took the law into his own hands. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 54 Young men will take the law into their own hands. 1902 A. Bennett Grand Babylon Hotel xxvii. 300 I have a few questions to put to you, and it will depend on how you answer them whether I give you up to the police or take the law into my own hands. 1942 A. Bryant Years of Endurance xiv. 333 The industrial workers and the starving peasants, deprived of their patrimony by enclosures, took the law into their own hands. < as lemmas |
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