lay down the law

释义

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   to tell sb with force what they should or should not do

   Lay down the law if you're feeling brave.

   It's time to lay down the law.

电影里这样说 · 2 部

• It's time to lay down the law.Transformers: Dark of the Moon2011
• Lay down the law if you're feeling brave.Doctor Who The Time of the Doctor2013
• You thought, "I'm gonna lay down the law for this nigga,Zack and Miri Make a Porno2008
• Yeah. That stuff you wear, you think it's a uniform that makes you some kind of cop, laying down the law, throwing your weight around.Lilies of the Field1963

同一词条的短语

• be a law unto yourself
• go to law
• law and order
• the law of averages
• the law of the jungle
• 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