court

Related to court: royal court, court records
See:
  • (one's) day in court
  • a friend at court
  • a full-court press
  • a kangaroo court
  • appear in court
  • ball's in your court, the
  • be laughed out of court
  • be ruled out of court
  • day in court, have one's
  • friend at court
  • friend in court
  • friend(s) in court
  • full-court press
  • full-court press, a
  • get (one's) day in court
  • have (one's) day in court
  • have the ball in (one's) court
  • have the ball in court
  • hold court
  • in contempt (of court)
  • kangaroo court
  • laugh (someone or something) out of court
  • laugh out of court
  • laugh out of court, to
  • laugh somebody/something out of court
  • laugh someone or something out of court
  • out of court
  • pay court to
  • pay court to (someone)
  • pay court to someone
  • rule (something) out of court
  • rule/throw something out of court
  • settle out of court
  • someone's day in court
  • stand up in court
  • take (someone or something) to court
  • take to court
  • the ball is in (one's) court
  • the ball is in court
  • the ball is in someone’s court
  • the ball is in someone's court
  • the ball is in your court
  • the ball is in your/somebody's court
References in classic literature
Could the Supreme Court have been relied upon as answering this description?
These considerations seem alone sufficient to authorize a conclusion, that the Supreme Court would have been an improper substitute for the Senate, as a court of impeachments.
`Stupid things!' Alice began in a loud, indignant voice, but she stopped hastily, for the White Rabbit cried out, `Silence in the court!' and the King put on his spectacles and looked anxiously round, to make out who was talking.
This of course, Alice could not stand, and she went round the court and got behind him, and very soon found an opportunity of taking it away.
Those Parisians who flocked to the Assize Court at Versailles, to be present at the trial of what was known as the "Mystery of The Yellow Room," will certainly remember the terrible crush at the Saint-Lazare station.
On such an afternoon some score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be--as here they are--mistily engaged in one of the ten thousand stages of an endless cause, tripping one another up on slippery precedents, groping knee-deep in technicalities, running their goat-hair and horsehair warded heads against walls of words and making a pretence of equity with serious faces, as players might.
Now, the Big-endian exiles have found so much credit in the emperor of Blefuscu's court, and so much private assistance and encouragement from their party here at home, that a bloody war has been carried on between the two empires for six-and-thirty moons, with various success; during which time we have lost forty capital ships, and a much a greater number of smaller vessels, together with thirty thousand of our best seamen and soldiers; and the damage received by the enemy is reckoned to be somewhat greater than ours.
We shall not detain the reader with a description of the captious discussions that occupied the court for the first two hours, Judge Temple had impressed on the jury, in his charge, the necessity for dispatch on their part, recommending to their notice, from motives of humanity, the prisoners in the jail as the first objects of their attention.
"Ask him if he will have ten kisses from the ladies of my court."
I have permission to carry the scraps over from the Court meals to my poor sick mother, and when I am going home at night, tired and weary, and rest for a little in the wood, then I hear the Nightingale singing!
Cruncher looked at him then or afterwards, seemed to be concentrated on the ceiling of the court. After some gruff coughing and rubbing of his chin and signing with his hand, Jerry attracted the notice of Mr.
The coadjutor possessed, perhaps, as much wit as all those put together who were assembled at the court to laugh at him.
Kirsch, you will carry our cards to the Count de Schlusselback directly; the Major and I will have the greatest pleasure in paying our respects at Court as soon as possible.
AN Assassin being put upon trial in a New England court, his Counsel rose and said: "Your Honour, I move for a discharge on the ground of 'once in jeopardy': my client has been already tried for that murder and acquitted."
The executive magistrate has a qualified negative on the legislative body, and the Senate, which is a part of the legislature, is a court of impeachment for members both of the executive and judiciary departments.