Trial Phrases

Phrases

• A Case Of Identity (Sherlock Holmes story)
• A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client
• Above the law
• Acid test
• Against the law
• An open and shut case (a straightforward legal case)
• Are you a Cadbury's Fruit & Nut case? (Cadburys advertising slogan)
• As sober as a judge
• As the case may be
• Asking for trouble
• Barrack room lawyer
• Basket case
• Beyond reasonable doubt
• Borrow trouble
• Brush with the law
• Burden of proof
• Case closed
• Case the joint
• Catch a case
• Challenge everything (EA Games advertising slogan)
• Click it or ticket (United States seat belt law advertising slogan)
• Cold Mountain (Jude Law / Renee Zellweger / Nicole Kidman movie)
• Complex sentence (a sentence containing subordinate clauses)
• Contempt of court
• Costa Del Crime
• Court of last resort (a legal court from which no further appeals may be made)
• Court popularity
• Crack the case
• Crime And Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky book)
• Crime Dog (Nickname of baseball player Fred McGriff)
• Crime against nature
• Crime doesn't pay
• Crime of passion
• Criminal stupidity
• Day of Judgment
• Doctor, doctor, give me the news, I've got a bad case of loving you (Robert Palmer song lyric)
• Domain tasting
• Don't make a federal case of it
• Don't trouble your pretty little head about it
• Don't try this at home
• Don't try to run before you can walk
• Don't try to teach your Grandma to suck eggs
• Don't try to walk before you can crawl
• Double blind test
• Double trouble
• Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble
• Evenin' all (A catchphrase from Dixon Of Dock Green)
• Everyone's a Cadbury's Fruit and Nut Case (Cadbury's Fruit and Nut advertising slogan)
• Eye it try it buy it! (Chevrolet advertising slogan)
• Fall foul of the law
• Frontier justice
• Full Ginsburg
• Future proof
• Get off my case
• Give it the old college try
• Go to law
• Hanging judge
• Hard case
• Hard cases make bad law
• Has your girl turned into a refrigerator? If her air is arctic, try MUM (Mum Deodorant advertising slogan)
• Haul before the court
• Head case
• Here comes de judge (A catchphrase from Rowan and Martin's Laugh In)
• Here comes trouble
• Hickory dickory dock the mouse ran up the clock (line from nursery rhyme)
• His word is law
• Hold court
• I Knew You Were Trouble (Taylor Swift song)
• I arrest you in the name of the law
• I fought the law and the law won
• I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception (Groucho Marx line)
• I rest my case
• Idiot proof
• If at first you don't succeed try, try and try again
• If gas pains persist, try Volkswagen (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
• If you can't do the time, don't do the crime
• Imagine no religion, it's easy if you try
• In any case
• In dock
• In the dock
• In the eyes of the law
• In trouble
• Judge Judy
• Judge not, that ye be not judged
• Just in case
• Kangaroo court
• Laugh it out of court
• Laughed out of court
• Law abiding
• Law and order
• Law unto oneself
• Lay the law down
• Let me not judge anyone until I have walked a mile in his moccasins
• Let the punishment fit the crime
• Litmus test

• Looking for trouble
• Make trouble
• Marriage isn't a word it's a sentence
• May it please the court
• Meet the challenge
• Mental case
• Mind how you go (A catchphrase from Dixon of Dock Green)
• Never judge a book by its cover
• Nice try
• No challenge too great
• Nose for crime
• Nose for trouble
• Not guilty
• Objection overruled
• Objection sustained
• On a case by case basis
• On approval
• On the case
• One law for the rich and another for the poor
• Order in the court
• Outside the law
• Partners in crime
• Pass sentence
• Philadelphia lawyer
• Pilot episode
• Plea bargain
• Please address the court
• Possession is nine tenths of the law
• Proof positive
• Put through the mill
• Put to the test
• Rise to the challenge
• Save it for the judge
• See you in court
• Settle out of court
• Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay (Otis Redding song)
• Starter marriage
• Stir up trouble
• Swing for the fences (A baseball expression meaning try for a substantial gain)
• Take a bite out of crime
• Take a bite out of crime! (National Crime Prevention Council advertising slogan)
• Take it for a spin
• Take someone to law
• Take the law into your own hands
• Test bed
• Test of faith
• Test the water
• Test tube baby
• The Flying Squad (Nickname of the Specialist Crime Directorate, New Scotland Yard)
• The Last Judgment
• The Life And Times Of Judge Roy Bean (Paul Newman movie)
• The Napoleon of Crime (Nickname of Professor Moriarty)
• The Shadow knows (A catchphrase from the crime fighting vigilante)
• The ball is in your court
• The case in point
• The case may be
• The court will rise
• 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
• The perfect crime
• The proof of the pudding is in the eating
• There ought to be a law
• There's no law against it
• These little things are sent to try us
• This is a local shop, we'll have no trouble here (A catchphrase from The League of Gentlemen)
• Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime (Tony Blair political slogan)
• Trial and error
• Trial and tribulation
• Trial by television
• Trouble and strife (Cockney rhyming slang for wife)
• Trouble in Paradise
• Trouble with a capital T
• Try A Little Tenderness (Otis Redding song)
• Try everything once, except incest and folk dancing (Sir Thomas Beecham quotation)
• Try it on the dog
• Try it, you'll like it (Alka Seltzer advertising slogan)
• Try your hand
• Try your luck
• Tummy trouble
• Twelve good men and true
• Up to your neck in trouble
• Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman! (Coty Perfumes advertising slogan)
• War criminal (someone who has flouted the Geneva Convention)
• We try harder (Avis car rental advertising slogan)
• We're number two. We try harder (Avis Rent-a-Car advertising slogan)
• When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me (Beatles song lyric)
• Why ask why? Try Bud Dry (Budweiser Earl advertising slogan)
• Worst case scenario
• You be the judge
• You've seen the rest, now try the best
• Your starter for ten (A catchphrase from University Challenge)