have a brush with (the law or something)
соприкасаться с законом или ещё с чем-либо
At fourteen Joe had a brush with the law because he had tried to hijack a car.
Другие идиомы:
- have one's ass in a sling
- have (something) at one's fingertips
- have a hunch about (something)
- have two strikes against one
- do not have a leg to stand on
- have a lot on one's mind
- have a big mouth
- have a heart of stone
- have egg on one's face
- have an eye for (something)
- have one's druthers
- have had its day
- have one foot in the grave
- have a free hand (to do something)
- have a head start