逍遥法外 — Chinese idiom
逍遥法外
xiāo yáo fǎ wài
Traditional: 逍遙法外
Meaning
- unfettered and beyond the law ; evading retribution
- getting away with it (e.g. crimes)
- still at large
Character by character
- 逍xiāoto ramble, to stroll; to jaunt, to loiter
- 遥yáodistant, remote
- 法fǎlaw, rule, statute; method, way; French
- 外wàiout, outside, external; foreign; in addition
Idioms sharing a character
- 逍遥自在 xiāo yáo zì zai
- 逍遥自得 xiāo yáo zì dé
- 遥遥无期 yáo yáo wú qī
- 遥遥领先 yáo yáo lǐng xiān
- 以言代法 yǐ yán dài fǎ
- 以身试法 yǐ shēn shì fǎ
- 执法如山 zhí fǎ rú shān
- 如法炮制 rú fǎ páo zhì
- 就地正法 jiù dì zhèng fǎ
- 徇私枉法 xùn sī wǎng fǎ
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