释义 |
go to lawBritish Resort to legal action in order to settle a matter: the process of going to law is not as simple as one may imagine...- Scrapping no-win no-fee deals where solicitors take up cases which previously would have been settled without going to law.
- I asked the insurance company not to pay it, but they did because it was cheaper to settle it that way rather than going to law.
- And it is even more disconcerting if two officers of the council, having gone to law and losing, now pass on the bill for this affair to the rate-payers.
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