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 a hollow leg
- have (something) at one's fingertips
- have foot-in-mouth disease
- have a change of heart
- have a good thing going
- have been around
- have a lead foot
- have the inside track
- have a price on one's head
- have the Midas touch
- have a chip on one's shoulder
- have a closed mind (about something)
- have in mind
- have a card up one's sleeve
- have a bee in one's bonnet