take the Fifth -Idioms

Idioms

take the Fifth

to hide behind the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution which guarantees any witness the right not to incriminate himself or herself while testifying at a trial

The man decided to take the Fifth rather than tell all of the facts at the trial.

take the initiative to (do something)

take the law into one's own hands

take the liberty of (doing something)

take the plunge

take the rap for (someone or something)

take the stand

take the starch out of (someone)

take the trouble to (do something)

take the wind out of someone's sails

take the words out of (someone's) mouth

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pack a punch/wallop

nothing down

with an eye/view to (doing something)

calm down

put an end to (something)

let oneself go

rip into (someone or something)

show one's (true) colors

have (someone) over

shoot up

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