justices' justice
chiefly depreciative
noun
Justice as administered by magistrates in inferior courts, especially when considered disproportionately severe.
Origin
Early 19th century; earliest use found in Alfred (Exeter).
- break rank
- break rank (or ranks)
- breaks
- break ship
- break someone in
- break someone's fall
- break someone's heart
- break (someone's) serve (or service)
- break someone up
- break something down
- break something in
- break something off
- break something open
- break something out
- break something up
- Breakspear, Nicholas
- break step
- break sweat (or break a sweat)
- break the back of
- break the bank
- break the ice
- break the mould
- break through
- breakthrough
- breakthrough bleeding