Law Phrases

Phrases

• 3 6 3 Rule
• A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client
• Above the law
• Against the law
• An open and shut case (a straightforward legal case)
• Apple pie order
• Bang out of order
• Barrack room lawyer
• Brush with the law
• Built to order
• Canteen culture (boorish behaviour by rank and file police or soldiers)
• Circumstances alter cases
• Clamp down on
• Click it or ticket (United States seat belt law advertising slogan)
• Cold Mountain (Jude Law / Renee Zellweger / Nicole Kidman movie)
• Congratulations are in order
• Contempt of court
• Court of last resort (a legal court from which no further appeals may be made)
• Court popularity
• Cut through the red tape
• Don't Stand So Close To Me (Police song)
• Easy Rider (Peter Fonda / Dennis Hopper movie)
• El Presidente (Nickname of baseball player Dennis Martinez)
• Every Breath You Take (The Police song)
• Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (Police song)
• Fall foul of the law
• Gagging order
• Get out of jail free
• Get out of jail free card (a means of avoiding justice - from the eponymous card in the Monopoly boardgame)
• Go directly to jail, do not pass go
• Go to law
• Golden rule
• Hard cases make bad law
• Hate watch (viewing a television programme in order to mock it)
• Haul before the court
• Helping the police with their enquiries
• His word is law
• Hold court
• Home rule
• House rules
• Human Rights Act
• I Shot The Sheriff (Eric Clapton song)
• I arrest you in the name of the law
• I fought the law and the law won
• In force
• In short order
• In the eyes of the law
• In the order of
• Jail bait
• Jail bird
• Jonnies out of jail
• Kangaroo court
• Known to the police
• Lady Justice
• Laugh it out of court
• Laughed out of court
• Law abiding
• Law and order
• Law unto oneself
• Lay the law down
• Legal decent honest and truthful
• Legal eagle
• Mail order bride
• May it please the court

• Message in A Bottle (Police song)
• Mob rule
• Oil Can (Nickname of Dennis Boyd)
• One law for the rich and another for the poor
• Order about
• Order in the court
• Order of magnitude
• Order order
• Order up
• Out of order
• Outside the law
• Over the legal limit
• Papal decree
• Pecking order
• Philadelphia lawyer
• Please address the court
• Police state
• Possession is nine tenths of the law
• Press charges
• Put your house in order
• Red tape
• Rule Britannia
• Rule of thumb
• Rule out
• Rule the roost
• Rule with a rod of iron
• Rule with an iron fist
• Saviour sibling (a child born in order to provide a transplant for another with a fatal disease)
• See what we mean (Canon advertising slogan)
• See you in court
• Settle out of court
• Shirtsleeve order
• Side order
• Take someone to law
• Take the law into your own hands
• Tall order
• That's the news and I'm outta here (A catchphrase from Dennis Miller In Saturday Night Live)
• The Beast of Bolsover (Nickname of English politician Dennis Skinner)
• The Iceman (Nickname of Dennis Bergkamp)
• The Non-Flying Dutchman (Nickname of Dennis Bergkamp)
• The Worm (Nickname of Dennis Rodman)
• The ball is in your court
• The court will rise
• The exception which proves the rule
• The law is an ass
• The law of averages
• The law of diminishing returns
• The law of the jungle
• The law of the land
• The laws of nature
• The letter of the law
• The long arm of the law
• The order of the boot
• The order of the day
• There ought to be a law
• There's an exception to every rule
• There's no law against it
• Thought police
• Trial and error
• Trial and tribulation
• Trial by television
• Twelve good men and true
• Walking On The Moon (The Police song)
• Work to rule

Related

• Above the law
• Against the law
• Brush with the law
• Click it or ticket (United States seat belt law advertising slogan)
• Cold Mountain (Jude Law / Renee Zellweger / Nicole Kidman movie)
• Fall foul of the law
• Go to law
• Hard cases make bad law
• His word is law
• I arrest you in the name of the law
• I fought the law and the law won
• In the eyes of the law
• Law abiding
• Law and order
• Law unto oneself
• Lay the law down
• One law for the rich and another for the poor
• Outside the law
• Possession is nine tenths of the law
• Take someone to law
• Take the law into your own hands
• The law is an ass
• The law of averages
• The law of diminishing returns
• The law of the jungle
• The law of the land
• The letter of the law
• The long arm of the law
• There ought to be a law
• There's no law against it