Penal Phrases

Phrases

• A goal in mind
• 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
• Frontier justice
• 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

• 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
• Jail bait
• Jail bird
• Jonnies out of jail
• Justice delayed is justice denied
• Justice is blind
• Lady Justice
• Law abiding

• Law and order
• Law unto oneself
• Lay the law down
• Miscarriage of justice
• No justice, no peace
• One law for the rich and another for the poor
• Outside the law
• Poetic justice
• Possession is nine tenths of the law
• Rough justice
• Score an own goal
• 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