Don't forget about the law

In most English-speaking countries, everything is a product, included healthcare and law. While most of liberal-influenced politicians of Europe find this awful, this is how things work across the pond. Let's discover some of the idioms related to the law!

kangaroo court: a judicial tribunal or assembly that blatantly disregards recognized standards of law or justice, and often carries little or no official standing in the territory within which it resides.

caveat emptor:  let the buyer beware. In most common law countries, there is no obligation of refund when a buyer gets a product that he doesn't like.

lay down the law: to tell people what they must do, without caring about their opinions

be a licence to print money:  if a company or activity is a licence to print money, it causes people to become very rich without having to make any effort

murphy's law: adage or epigram that is typically stated as: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

sharp practice: sneaky or cunning behavior that is technically within the rules of the law but borders on being unethical.

toe the line: to do what you are ordered or expected to do