break a law

break a/the law

To do something that is illegal. If you shoplift, you are breaking the law, period. The statutes are different in different places so sometimes you can break a law without even knowing it!

break a law

and break the law

to fail to obey a law; to act contrary to a law. Lisa broke the law when she drove the wrong way on a one-way street. If you never break the law, you will never get arrested.

词组	break a law
释义	break a law break a/the law To do something that is illegal. If you shoplift, you are breaking the law, period. The statutes are different in different places so sometimes you can break a law without even knowing it! See also: break, law Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. break a law and break the law to fail to obey a law; to act contrary to a law. Lisa broke the law when she drove the wrong way on a one-way street. If you never break the law, you will never get arrested. See also: break, law McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. See also: break a/the law left, right and centre left, right, and center left, right, and centre go in a different direction here and there knock the habit knock the/(one's) habit make into (as) different as chalk and cheese
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