AbovetheLawとは 意味・読み方・使い方

前置詞句

above the law

1. Exempt from the laws that apply to everyone else.

   Coordinate term: below the law

   The emperor is above the law.

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

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     '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.'

   • 2022 August 26, “Donald Trump Is Not Above the Law”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     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.

参考

• law unto oneself