law and order

Meaning

1. Oxford67% of films

   a situation in which people obey the law and behave in a peaceful way

   Don't you have respect for law and order?

In the movies · 6

• Don't you have respect for law and order?The Mask1994
• I'm a law-and-order man these days.Downton Abbey2019
• And you can run on a law-and-order ticket.His Girl Friday1940
• Mr. Law and Order.Sin City2005
• It's a law and order issue.Robin Hood2018
• An accountant for law and order.The Other Guys2010
• A moral fusion between law and order and clinical care.Shutter Island2010
• We had law and order in the street.Donnie Brasco1997

Learn it in full scenes

• The Mask1994
  • Stanley Hands Over the Tickets
  • Arguing the Plan Against Niko
  • Stanley Becomes the Mask
• Downton Abbey2019
  • The King and Queen Are Coming
  • Downton Prepares for the Royal Visit
  • The Royal Butler Takes Over
• His Girl Friday1940
  • Hildy Tells Walter She's Remarrying
  • Hildy Quits the Post
  • Walter Meets Bruce Baldwin

From the same entry

• be a law unto yourself
• go to law
• the law of averages
• the law of the jungle
• lay down the law
• take the law into your own hands
• there's no law against
• the letter of the law
• possession is nine tenths of the law
• the rule of law
• on the wrong side of the law