day in court
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5.5
- noun
- Formal
:
audiencia
- But I believe everyone deserves their day in court before they are found guilty.
And I thought you gave everybody their day in court their opportunity to speak.
- And I thought you gave everybody their day in court their opportunity to speak.
- And I think that highlights that everyone deserves to have their day in court, whether or not it's true or false.
- We will never know if that's what he was doing or not because he never had his day in court.
- the US government says it wasn't, but they haven't filed any charges and they won't allow you a day in court to hash this out, correct?
- They said any person here, you can't do that without giving them their day in court.
Examples
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The accused wants her day in court.
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Thanks to the judge's decision, we will have our day in court to argue our case.
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But the next day in court, things took a turn for the worse.
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After over a month in jail, he finally gets his day in court, just after the election.
Blog text (1) -
Whether or not we get our day in court, whether or not the criminal goes to jail.
Blog text (20) -
But I also believe people have the right to a day in court.
Blog text (13) -
He had his day in court.
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You just had your day in court, Marty.
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Public employees had their day in court in three cases of constitutional rights vs. practical aspects of hiring.
Academic text (1997) -
And I think that highlights that everyone deserves to have their day in court, whether or not it's true or false.
Synonyms
120
7.0
A person going to court to be present in a legal case
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward composition: 'day' (a designated day) + 'in' (within) + 'court' (the legal forum) yields a literal day when someone appears before a court to present a case. This literal, compositional reading directly matches the MWE meaning and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows the parts will likely infer it.
Etymology
Day in court comes from the simple image of getting a day in a court, when a person stands before a judge to tell their side. That's why it now means getting a chance 'to present your case' or 'to be heard'.