Min Minh
2021-03-14 09:03
Put someone in the dock verb phrase
"Dock" where the defendant sits while adjudicating in the courtroom on those days. In the common sense, "put someone in the doc" means to denouce someone's crime to the law so they are jailed. In this case, bring / take can replace put, and court / trial replaces dock for the same meaning.
She was taken to the court/ brought to the trial because of her murder.
The government is being put in the dock for failing to warn the public about the flu epidemic.
Police could still put this murderer in the dock even lacking of evidence.
Drug trafficking should be permanently brought to the court
Tom has been put in the dock by his father because he suspected Tom had stolen his money
Seem to be very suspicious or morally unacceptable
To escape from the statement saying that someone is guilty of a crime or of doing something wrong or evade impeachment without being responsible for any sentence or punishment
To provide the police or authorities with information to expose someone’s wrongdoings
To suspect that someone is being dishonest
Said when you do not trust what someone has promised
The verb "put" should be conjugated according to its tense
This idiomatic expression employs dock in the sense of "an enclosed place for the defendant in a court of law," a usage dating from the late 1500s, and is used even in American courts where no such enclosure exists.
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