Смысл: affrights

affright1. [əʹfraıt] n поэт.
<Í> 1) испуг, страх
2) страшилище; что-л. пугающее

2. [əʹfraıt] v поэт.
<Í> пугать, ужасать

put (something) to rights Идиома

bang to rights

caught red-handed; police/criminal vernacular often heard used jocularly

dims and brights

days and nights

stand on one's rights

stick to one's rights坚持自己的权利
Although the teacher criticized her，she stood on her rights and argued back．尽管老师批评她，但她坚持自己的权利并予以反驳。

read one one's rights

Idiom(s): read one one's rights

Theme: CRIME

to make the required statement of legal rights to a person who has been arrested.
• All right, read this guy his rights and book him on a charge of theft.
• You have to read them their rights before putting them in jail.

have sb dead to rights

Idiom(s): have sb dead to rights

Theme: PROOF

to have proven someone unquestionably guilty.
• The police burst in on the robbers while they were at work. They had the robbers dead to rights.
• All right, Tom! I've got you dead to rights! Get your hands out of the cookie jar.

dead to rights|dead|right|rights

adv. phr., informal Without a chance of escaping blame; proven wrong. Mother had Bob dead to rights, because she caught him with his hand in the cookie jar. The police caught the man dead to rights.

give someone his rights|give|his rights|read|read

v. phr., informal 1. The act of advising arrested criminals that they have the right to remain silent and that everything they say can be held against them in a court of law; that they have the right to the presence of an attorney during questioning and that if they can't afford one and request it, an attorney will be appointed for them by the State. The cops gave Smith his rights immediately after the arrest. 2. To sever a relationship by telling someone that he or she can go and see a divorce lawyer or the like. Sue gave Mike his rights before she slammed the door in his face.
Compare: READ THE RIOT ACT.

put to rights|put|rights|set|set to rights

v. phr., informal To put in good order; clean up. It took the company a long time to put the office to rights after the fire. It took Mrs. Smith an hour to set the room to rights after the party.

read one one's rights|read|right|rights

v. phr. To give to an arrested person the legally required statement regarding the rights of such a person. "Read him his rights," Sergeant," the captain said, "and book him for breaking and entering."

by rights

by rights
Justly, in fairness, as in By rights he should have been chosen first. Originally put as by right, this term was first recorded about 1315.

put (something) to rights

To restore or align article to its proper, natural, or aboriginal accompaniment or condition. I never anguish about befitting my auberge allowance tidy, because I apperceive they'll accelerate addition to put it to rights already I leave. That new abettor is absolutely useless. Now I'm activity to accept to absorb the absolute weekend putting this arrangement to rights!Learn more: put, right

put/set article to ˈrights

actual a situation, abnormally one which is unfair; put things in their appropriate places or appropriate order: As a adolescent politician, she capital to set the apple to rights. ♢ It took me ages to put things to rights afterwards the apprentice had left.Learn more: put, right, set, something

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