A policeman spots a woman driving and knitting at the same time. Driving up beside her, he shouts out the window...
"Pull over!"
"No," she shouts back, "a pair of socks!"
lord n. Member of the house of lords qualified to perform its legal work.
- n. - a rule enacted or customary in a community and recognized as commanding or forbidding certain actions. B body of such rules.
- controlling influence of laws; respect for laws.
- laws collectively as a social system or subject of study.
- binding force (her word is law).
- (prec. By the) a the legal profession. B colloq. The police.
- (in pl.) Jurisprudence.
- a the judicial remedy. B the lawcourts as providing this (go to law).
- rule of action or procedure.
- regularity in natural occurrences (laws of nature; law of gravity). 10 divine commandments. be a law unto oneself do what one considers right; disregard custom. Lay down the law be dogmatic or authoritarian. Take the law into one's own hands redress a grievance by one's own means, esp. By force. [old english from old norse, = thing laid down]
