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take the law into your own hands idiom C2 to do something illegal and often violent in order to punish someone because you know the law will not punish that person: 不通过法律自行惩罚,私自治罪 One day, after years of violent abuse from her husband, she took the law into her own hands.在经受了多年虐待之后,她终于有一天私自报复了她的丈夫。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Punishing & punishments ankle bracelet ankle tag attach ball and chain bar be brought/called to accountidiom discipline endorsement fixed penalty flay flay someone aliveidiom get what's coming to youidiom gross misconduct penalty sentence skin someone aliveidiom slam dunk someone should be shotidiom sort sort something out
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