Law, power & politics
96 idioms live on this lane.
Idioms about law, power & politics
- above the fray
- above the law
- activist judge
- activist justice
- ancient history
- angel's advocate
- assault and battery
- bang to rights
- bellwether state
- blast from the past
- blue state
- blue wall of silence
- bright line
- bright-line rule
- bring to justice
- build a case
- bum rap
- call to the bar
- cast one's vote
- clean hands
- come to power
- comfort woman
- could not get elected dogcatcher
- cross the aisle
- cross the Rubicon
- Daniel come to judgement
- days of yore
- dead to rights
- do justice
- drop the writ
- even the score
- exchange contracts
- eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
- fair shake
- fine print
- foot voting
- fruit of the poisonous tree
- gavel to order
- get out the vote
- get what's coming to one
- go over to the majority
- golden age
- gun jumping
- have the law of someone
- hold sway
- in control
- in living memory
- in the dock
- in the interest of justice
- iron curtain
- Jane Roe
- judge, jury and executioner
- kangaroo court
- large and in charge
- lay down the law
- legal duty
- long arm of the law
- lord it over
- murder will out
- Nixon in China
- nuclear option
- Nuremberg defense
- Officer Friendly
- on the wrong side of history
- out-paramour the Turk
- palace politics
- pay one's debt to society
- perp walk
- play politics
- Polish parliament
- political football
- Richard Roe
- ride roughshod over
- robber baron
- rough justice
- saved by the bell
- serve notice
- serve someone right
- small print
- spin doctor
- stand trial
- stuff the ballot box
- swing round the circle
- take a ride to Tyburn
- take silk
- take the fifth
- take the law into one's own hands
- take the stand
- tell it to the judge
- term of years
- term of years absolute
- term of years determinable
- think tank
- time out of mind
- a week is a long time in politics
- whip hand