echar la ley in Spanish

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      "expansion": "echar la ley",
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  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "e‧char la ley"
  ],
  "hyphenations": [
    {
      "parts": [
        "e‧char la ley"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
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      "glosses": [
        "to lay down the law"
      ],
      "id": "en-echar_la_ley-es-verb-y7VjsOa2",
      "links": [
        [
          "lay down the law",
          "lay down the law"
        ]
      ],
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        "(idiomatic) to lay down the law"
      ],
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        {
          "word": "echar toda la ley"
        }
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/eˌt͡ʃaɾ la ˈlei/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[eˌt͡ʃaɾ la ˈlei̯]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "echar la ley"
}

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "echar la ley",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "e‧char la ley"
  ],
  "hyphenations": [
    {
      "parts": [
        "e‧char la ley"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
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        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
        "Spanish idioms",
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        "Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Spanish verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to lay down the law"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lay down the law",
          "lay down the law"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) to lay down the law"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "echar toda la ley"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/eˌt͡ʃaɾ la ˈlei/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[eˌt͡ʃaɾ la ˈlei̯]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "echar la ley"
}

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"echar la ley" meaning in Spanish

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