above the law

Definitions

Exempt from the laws that apply to everyone else.

Equivalents

Examples

“The emperor is above the law.”

“You may think⟳ you're above the law, but you're not.”

“'The law,' she laughed with scorn - 'the law! Canst thou not understand⟳, oh Holly, that I am above the law, and so shall my Kallikrates be also? All human law will be to us as the north wind to a mountain.'”

“If we hesitate to call⟳ those actions and their perpetrator criminal, then we are saying he is above the law and giving license⟳ to future presidents to do whatever they want⟳.”

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