Feel (one's) collar In english explanation

The meaning, explanation, definition and origin of the idiom/phrase "feel (one's) collar", English Idiom Dictionary ( also found in Vietnamese )

author Tonia Thai calendar 2022-02-17 11:02

Meaning of Feel (one's) collar

Feel (one's) collar American British informal

If you say that you feel one's collar, you mean that you arrest him legally.
 

If you continue to drive carelessly like that, the police will feel your collar sooner or later.

The law has felt Jane's collar for causing a riot.

Don't disrupt the public order or else the police will feel your collar.

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take away

1. To remove it from the place where it is
2. To have something as the effect of an event
3. To take someone along to some place
4. To arrest or imprison someone.
5. To awe someone.
6. To win something hand downs.
7. To buy food at a restaurant for eating elsewhere.
8. (take away from) To detract from something.
9. To remove something from someone as a punishment 
10. To make a feeling, pain, etc. disappear.
11. To learn something from an experience or activity.
12. To make money from something.
13. To subtract a number
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put (one) behind bars

To arrest and put someone in prison

come for (someone or something)

Used to describe arriving to take someone or something away.

Grammar and Usage of Feel (one's) collar

Verb Forms

  • feel one's collar
  • feels one's collar
  • feeling one's collar
  • felt one's collar

The verb "feel" should be conjugated according to its tense.

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