kangaroo court
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++ˌkangaroo ˈcourt noun [countable] SCTPUNISHan unofficial court that punishes people unfairly “袋鼠法庭”〔私设的判案不公的法庭〕
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kangaroo court• It's grossly unfair for television to single out one player from one game and conduct a kangaroo court there and then.• It was like a kangaroo court, he thought.• He leads the reader into assuming that the tribunal is anything other than a kangaroo court.• He was fined recently in kangaroo court and the pitchers offered to pay it.• The kangaroo court decided the punishment must fit the crime and ruled that he stay in his cell during the jailhouse comedy.ˌkangaroo ˈcourt nounChineseSyllable
unofficial that unfairly people punishes Corpus court an
kangaroo court
ˌkangaroo ˈcourt
noun [countable]
an unofficial court that punishes people unfairly
ˌkangaroo ˈcourt
noun [countable]an unofficial court that punishes people unfairly