VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

In the dock

Meaning:

To be on trial in court

Examples:

  • They should be in the dock today.
  • I told him I already met her in the dock, but he insisted on a social one.
  • What can you say of these men in the dock?
  • Dad thinks he's got the wrong person in the dock.
  • The first by a waterman, the second in the dock yard.
  • Step 1: Click the Time Machine icon in the dock.
  • That's the bloke who changed his plea in the dock.
  • You disappeared as soon as the boat was in the dock.
  • But I could've got Manttan in the dock.
  • That man is the despot who ought to be in the dock!