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A list of phrases related to the word "illegal"...
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Against the law
As
crooked
as a dog's hind leg
Back the
wrong
horse
Barking up the
wrong
tree
(
the meaning and origin of this phrase...
)
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