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:
- hardly have time to breathe
- have (someone) eating out of (the palm of) your hand
- have a mind like a steel trap
- have a good eye for (something)
- have one's cake and eat it too
- have a big mouth
- have one for the road
- have eyes in the back of one's head
- have bearing on (something)
- have turned the corner
- have it coming (to someone)
- have a notion to do (something)
- have (someone) in one's pocket
- have one's eyes glued to (something)
- have a poker face