rough justice

rough justice

Excessive punishment. I know a lot of citizens wouldn't mind administering some rough justice to those thugs, but that's not what we stand for.
See also: justice, rough
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

rough justice

1 treatment, especially punishment, that is approximately fair. 2 treatment that is not at all fair or not in accordance with the law.
See also: justice, rough
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

rough ˈjustice

punishment or rewards given without enough care so that people feel they have been unfairly treated: The pensioners complained that they had received rough justice when their claim for an increase in benefits was rejected without discussion.
See also: justice, rough
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • twice over
  • heavily
  • tax-and-spend
  • shellacked
  • pervert the course of justice
  • up the yin-yang
  • do (one's)/the dirty work
  • do someone's dirty work
  • (stark) raving mad
References in periodicals archive
VIGILANTES have been doling out rough justice to criminals and posting videos of the savage and elaborate punishments online.
Rough Justice: The International Criminal Court in a World of Power Politics.
Rough Justice has been a bookies' horse so far, starting favourite or joint favourite five times and the only time he won was when he eventually landed a bumper.
Rough Justice at Theatre Royal, Newcastle, until Saturday TERENCE Frisby, author of this courtroom drama starring Tom Conti as a father who admits the manslaughter of his brain-damaged baby son, takes a dim view of the British legal system, with the programme notes telling us of his own "dismal experience" of law during past civil court actions.
As Disraeli once said, "Justice is truth to action", so the rough transitions of scenery resemble the rough justice people had and still have to battle with when facing a trial in court.
Sure rough justice may be better than no justice, but nevertheless, it is still rough justice, and that is the risk all expats take.
It was rough justice on a welldrilled and well-organised Aberdeen outfit who have serious claims of finishing "best of the rest" behind guaranteed SPL winners Celtic.
The Roots of Rough Justice: Origins of American Lynching.
The man behind TV's Rough Justice is calling for the first murder case they probed to be reopened.
It would have been rough justice on Villa who had done enough to earn at least a share of the spoils - and should themselves have won the game in injury time as Nigel Reo-Coker shot wide when one-on-one with keeper Petr Cech.
"This execution is medieval rough justice gone badly wrong" - Robert Westhead, spokesman for MDF, the Bipolar Organisation charity, on the execution by the Chinese of Akmal Shaikh, 53, from London, for drug smuggling.
I'M sorry but I have to put fingers to keyboard re the letters "Rough Justice (Dec 23).
AMATEUR drama group the Hall Green Little Theatre is staging a production of the play Rough Justice.
It was rough justice on the hosts, playing their first match on home soil, after they looked capable of repeating last season's point against Peter Nicholas' side.
Unbridled Cowboy is filled cover to cover with riveting true tales of undercover work as a Texas Ranger, life on the railroads, and rough justice. A captivating true life narrative of the wild west.