the knock at/on the door
an occasion when police or soldiers come to take you away from your home:
During the dictatorship people had come to fear the knock at the door in the middle of the night.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Arresting & charging
- apprehend
- apprehension
- arrest
- assist
- attachment
- charge
- charge sheet
- handcuffs
- hold
- house arrest
- knock
- lag
- Miranda
- pull
- pull sb in
- run
- run sb in
- take sb in
- tighten
- tighten the net idiom
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