bend the law/rules
to change the rules in a way that is considered to be not important or not harmful:
Can't you bend the rules a little? I was only a few minutes late.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Obeying & breaking the law
- abide
- adhere
- afoul
- breach
- break
- breaker
- clean
- clean up your act idiom
- commit
- compliant
- conform
- contravene
- disobey
- hold
- law-abiding
- observe
- perpetrate
- respect
- venal
- violate
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