Phrase thesaurus
Illegal Phrases
53 phrases and expressions related to "illegal".
Phrases
- Against the law
- As crooked as a dog's hind leg
- Back the wrong horse
- Barking up the wrong tree
- Bent double
- Bent out of shape
- Black economy
- Blood diamonds
- Born on the wrong side of the blanket
- Born on the wrong side of the tracks
- Contempt of court
- Criminal stupidity
- Crooked House (Agatha Christie book)
- From the wrong side of the tracks
- Get hold of the wrong end of the stick
- Get off on the wrong foot
- Get out of the wrong side of the bed
- Go down the wrong way
- Go wrong
- Gypsy cab
- Hell bent
- How wrong can you be?
- If anything can go wrong, it will
- If this is wrong I don't want to be right
- Illegal alien
- In the wrong
- It went down the wrong way
- It's all gone Pete Tong (Cockney rhyming slang for gone wrong)
- Jump to the wrong conclusion
- Laugh on the wrong side of your face
- My country right or wrong
- Not that there's anything wrong with that (A catchphrase from Seinfeld)
- On the black market
- On the side
- On the wrong foot
- On the wrong side of the tracks
- Outside the law
- People smuggler (someone involved in smuggling immigrants between countries, often illegally)
- Put a foot wrong
- Rub up the wrong way
- The Adventure of the Crooked Man (Sherlock Holmes story)
- The right place at the wrong time
- There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile (line from nursery rhyme)
- Up to no good
- Waltzing Matilda (Australia's unofficial national anthem)
- War baby (someone born during the war - especially the illegitimate child of a soldier)
- War criminal (someone who has flouted the Geneva Convention)
- What's wrong with this picture?
- Why don't you come up sometime and see me? (She Done Him Wrong)
- Wrong Way Corrigan (Nickname of Douglas Corrigan)
- Wrong side of the blanket
- Wrong side of the tracks
- Wrong, with a capital R