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🗣 Rules 👂🏻

rule [noun]
[countable] an official instruction that says how things must be done or what is allowed, especially in a game, organization, or job

✔️rule of
✔️under the rules/according to the rules
✔️as a (general) rule
✔️under ... rule

COLLOCATIONS
VERBS
🔱break a rule (also violate a rule formal) (=not obey it) - obey/follow a rule - comply with/abide by/observe a rule formal (=obey it) - stick to/go by the rules informal (=obey them) - make the rules

🔱the rule says ...
🔱the rule stipulates that ... formal (=it says that something must be done)
🔱the rule prohibits/forbids something
🔱the rule requires (that) ... formal (=it says that people must do something)
🔱the rule applies to somebody/something (=it concerns them)
🔱play by the rules (=do what is expected and agreed)

🔱bend/stretch the rules (=allow someone to do something that is not normally allowed)
🔱relax the rules (=make them less strict) Britain
🔱tighten (up) the rules (=make them stricter)
🔱enforce a rule (=make sure that it is obeyed)
🔱flout a rule (=break it, without trying to hide what you are doing)
🔱be bound by rules (=have to obey them)

ADJECTIVES/NOUN + RULE
🔨Strict/ Simple
🔨petty (=unreasonable rules about unimportant things)
🔨a school/ prison/ club etc rule
🔨an unwritten rule (=a rule of behaviour that everyone in a group understands)
🔨health and safety rules

PHRASES
✅be against the rules (=not be allowed)
✅the rules concerning/governing/relating to something formal (=the rules about something)
✅a change in the rules
✅a breach of the rules formal (=something that is against the rules)
✅rules and regulations
✅rules are rules spoken (=a rule must be obeyed)

THESAURUS
🔘rule an instruction that says what people are allowed to do or not allowed to do, for example in a game, school, or company
🔘law an official rule that everyone in a country, city, or state must obey
🔘regulation an official rule or order, which is part of a set of rules made by a government or organization
🔘restriction an official rule that limits what people can do
🔘guidelines rules or instructions about the best way to do something
🔘code a set of rules that people or organizations agree to obey but are not forced to obey
🔘statute formal a law that has been officially approved by a parliament, council etc, and written down
🔘ordinance American English a law, made by a city or town, that forbids or restricts an activity

IDIOMS
🔹arm of the law: This expression refers to the extent to which the authority or power of the law extends.
🔹bandit territory: A geographical area where law enforcement is practically impossible, because people ignore all rules
🔹blow the whistle: If you report an illegal or socially-harmful activity to the authorities, and give information about those responsible for it.
🔹breaking and entering: This term refers to the fact of entering a building or home illegally by breaking open a window, door, etc.
🔹caught red-handed: If a person is caught red-handed, they are caught while they are doing something wrong or illegal.
🔹daylight robbery: The term daylight robbery is used when the price of something is thought to be much too high.
🔹cut some slack: If you relax a rule, treat a person less severely or allow someone to do something which is normally not permitted, you cut them some slack.
🔹in trouble with the law: If someone is in trouble with the law, they are being questioned by the police in connection with something illegal or criminal.
🔹take the law into one's own hands: Instead of calling the police, you act personally against someone who has done something wrong,

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