take+as+one's+own
1take as one's own — index assume (seize), impropriate Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
2take the law into one's own hands — {v. phr.} To protect one s supposed rights or punish a suspected wrongdoer without reference to a court. An overused expression. * /When the men of the settlement caught the suspected murderer, they took the law into their own hands and hanged… …
3take the law into one's own hands — {v. phr.} To protect one s supposed rights or punish a suspected wrongdoer without reference to a court. An overused expression. * /When the men of the settlement caught the suspected murderer, they took the law into their own hands and hanged… …
4take the law into one's own hands — To obtain justice, or what one considers to be justice, by one s own actions, without recourse to the law, the police, etc • • • Main Entry: ↑law * * * punish someone for an offense according to one s own ideas of justice, esp. in an illegal or… …
5take the law into one's own hands — ► take the law into one s own hands illegally or violently punish someone according to one s own ideas of justice. Main Entry: ↑law …
6take the law into one's own hands — idi take the law into one s own hands, to administer justice as one sees fit without recourse to legal processes …
7take into one's head — phrasal : to conceive as a sudden notion : be seized with an idea or form a sudden resolve took it into his head to open a small shop of his own * * * take into one s head To be seized with a notion • • • Main Entry: ↑take …
8take the law into one's own hands — punish someone according to one s own ideas of justice, especially illegally or violently. → lavish something on …
9take the law into own hands — take the law into (your) own hands to do something illegal in order to punish someone because you know that the law will not punish that person. One day, after years of violent abuse from her husband, she decided to take the law into her own… …
10come into one's own — phrasal : to acquire something (as rights or a position) that rightfully belongs or is felt to belong to one; sometimes : to gain recognition natural gas has come into its own Gardiner Symonds * * * come into one s own To have the opportunity to… …
