Decree Phrases

Phrases

• A class act
• Above the law
• Act of God
• Act out
• Act the fool
• Act the giddy goat
• Act the part
• Act up
• Act white
• Act your age
• Against the law
• Balancing act
• Brush with the law
• Caught in the act
• Class act
• Clean up your act
• Click it or ticket (United States seat belt law advertising slogan)
• Cold Mountain (Jude Law / Renee Zellweger / Nicole Kidman movie)
• Conflict resolution
• Couldn't act his way out of a paper bag
• Do a disappearing act
• Double act
• Fall foul of the law
• Foot in the bucket (A baseball expression meaning to act timidly or cowardly)
• Get in on the act
• Get your act together
• Go to law
• Hard act to follow
• Hard cases make bad law
• High wire act
• His word is law
• Human Rights Act
• I arrest you in the name of the law
• I fought the law and the law won

• In on the act
• In the eyes of the law
• Law abiding
• Law and order
• Law unto oneself
• Lay the law down
• New year's resolution
• One law for the rich and another for the poor
• Open verdict
• Outside the law
• Papal decree
• Phone it in (perform an act in an uncommitted disinterested manner)
• Play hardball (A baseball expression meaning to be or act tough or aggressive)
• Possession is nine tenths of the law
• Put on an act
• Random act of kindness
• Read the riot act
• Sister Act (Whoopie Goldberg movie)
• Take someone to law
• Take the law into your own hands
• The act you've known for all these years (Beatles song lyric)
• The cat who doesn't act finicky soon loses control of his owner (9 Lives Cat Food advertising slogan)
• The law is an ass
• The law of averages
• The law of diminishing returns
• The law of the jungle
• The law of the land
• The letter of the law
• The long arm of the law
• There ought to be a law
• There's no law against it
• Think global, act local
• Think globally, act locally (Friends of the Earth advertising slogan)
• Triple play (A baseball expression denoting the act of making three outs during the same play)