take the law into your own hands

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To take the law into your own hands is to punish somebody yourself instead of using the courts. Do not take the law into your own hands.

It is always a warning, since anybody who does take the law into your own hands becomes an offender too. Communities take the law into your own hands most where they have stopped trusting the police.

Definitions of take the law into your own hands

1phrasetake the law into your own handsTo punish somebody yourself instead of using the courts.C1
“The neighbours threatened to take the law into your own hands.”

take the law into your own hands is a phrase.

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take the law into your own hands

phraseC1Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

To take the law into your own hands is to punish somebody yourself instead of using the courts. Do not take the law into your own hands.

It is always a warning, since anybody who does take the law into your own hands becomes an offender too. Communities take the law into your own hands most where they have stopped trusting the police.

Definitions of take the law into your own hands

1phrasetake the law into your own handsTo punish somebody yourself instead of using the courts.C1
“The neighbours threatened to take the law into your own hands.”

take the law into your own hands is a phrase.

Practised in Idioms

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