take the law into your own hands
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take the law into your own hands — idiom
1. To do something illegal to punish someone instead of letting the police deal wit
1.idiom
Definition
To do something illegal to punish someone instead of letting the police deal with them.
Example
The community was warned not to take the law into their own hands.
After the theft, the victim took the law into his own hands and confronted the thief.