'Necessity breaks every law'.  Is it an English idiom? What does it mean?
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It means that at times you will do whatever it takes to get what you want- if you want it badly even commit a crime.
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I have seen it used, but cannot find it in any dictionary.  It seems to be used "as in a liberal sense" or using prudence in a poetic license context.
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Failing to do what is required by law or obligation, overdue in payment, A person who neglects or fails to do what law or obligation requires; A juvenile delinquent, an underage individual who fails to do what law or obligation requires.\n\nHope this helps, good luck.
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It's actually quoted as an example even in the Oxford Dictionary. They say it's spoken English and used instead of "why". I agree with those who think it's not excellent English, but you know, use sometimes is sovereign and creates rules of its own!
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The context in Luke is putting anything above God in your life. If you do that you are not worthy of Him. You have to hate everything in your life compared to Him. That's what it is saying. It has no connection with the Law in Exodus....   Jim
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I'm not quite sure I understand what you're asking.\nAre you asking what an American would mean by using that phrase in a sentence?\nIf so, it would mean an extremely loud noise ( as in an explosion) that could "shatter the glass". In other words, loud enough to break it.\nOr a high-pitched or very loud voice could cause someone to say, "Her voice is so high, it could shatter (break) glass."
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An idiom is an expression whose meaning is not compositional—that is, whose meaning does not follow from the meaning of the individual words of which it is composed. For example, the English phrase to kick the bucket means to die. A listener knowing the meaning of kick and bucket will not thereby be able to predict that the expression can mean to die. Idioms are often, though perhaps not universally, classified as figures of speech.
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The idiom the straw that broke the camel's back is from a proverb about loading up a camel beyond its capacity to move. This is a reference to any process by which cataclysmic failure (a broken back) is achieved by a seemingly inconsequential addition (a single straw). This also gives rise to the phrase "the last straw", used when something is deemed to be the last in a line of unacceptable occurrences.
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The first quote means that doing right isn't easy and will, in fact, be more difficult, given that people often will try to prevent you from doing right, because it (often) causes them to feel guilty about their own lack of effort.\n\nThe second means all the laws in the world won't keep bad people from behaving badly, while truly good people don't need to know right from the law; it is intrinsic in their nature.\n\nHope this helps...
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Not all laws are correct. Our own independence came from breaking Britain's laws, and so did India's. These people that come across our borders are coming because they are in desparate need of the basic necessities of life, and they can find them here. Take any one of your loved ones, and let's say they were bleeding to death in your car and you were driving to the hospital. Now, if you were to follow the speed limit and all of the rules of the road on your way to get to the hospital, then your loved one would die. If you were to speed, and "break the law", then your loved one would live. Now, that actually happened to my best friend. He was bleeding to death and I broke the law by going 90 in a 55 zone. After I got to the hospital, I actually got a ticket for speeding even though, if I were to arrive two minutes afterwards, my friend would have been dead. There are times when breaking the law is necessary, and in those times it is ethics that guide us.
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This is a metaphor meaning that someone has taken on a task that is too difficult for the person to accomplish. It really has nothing to do with food. An example: A business professional agrees to write a report in an area in which he/she has no expertise. The project remains undone or is completed poorly. This person "bit off more than they could chew."
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You need to clarify your question.  Civil law has several meanings.  It can mean the opposite of criminal law, or it can mean the opposite of English common law.  In neither of those settings, however, are there four widely known "assumptions", so your question lacks meaning in this form.  Provide more information or, if the question comes from a textbook, consult it for whatever assumptions it claims exist.  Try your question again with more detail and context, and I'll bet someone will get you an answer.
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When anyone forces another to anything against their will. any situation of power over. Abuse is abuse is abuse.
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I can't remember where the quote is from, but I agree with it entirely.  It means "no holds barred", in a way, and I find it true in love and war.  It's sad to say that's true in love, but, experience tells me it is true, and our culture supports it entirely.  Our international bodies try to make it untrue in war, such as in the Geneva Convention, but, war is hell everything's "fair" in hell, so . . ..  God Bless you.
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this sounds like a concept that is specific to UK law. there is a definition in the source below but you might need to use edit/find to find the specific reference
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I haven't been able to find it in the cliche or phrase dictionaries.  I've seen it in books and usually it meant "searched exhaustively."\nAn example is "The detective really covered the waterfront, and has no further clues to pursue."
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Don't know who said it recently but it's a quote from Shakespeare\n\n"Cry HAVOC' and let slip the dogs of war!" - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act III