have a brush with the law
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At fourteen Joe had a brush with the law because he had tried to hijack a car.
Другие идиомы:
- have one too many
- have two strikes against one
- have been to hell and back
- have mixed feelings about (someone or something)
- have (something) at one's fingertips
- have had enough
- have a leg to stand on
- have an ear for (something)
- have (someone) eating out of (the palm of) your hand
- have a lot on one's plate
- have on (something)
- have feet of clay
- have a lot of promise
- have butterflies in one's stomach
- have what it takes