Idiom
judge, jury and executioner
Meaning
Someone with the roles of judge, jury and executioner; someone with full power to judge and punish others unilaterally.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“You cannot act as judge, jury and executioner in this argument.”
“The manager acted as judge, jury and executioner when he fired the employee without hearing his side of the story.”
“By unilaterally deciding the fate of his subordinates without any oversight, the director effectively became the judge, jury and executioner of the department.”
Examples
simple
“You cannot act as judge, jury and executioner in this argument.”
contextual
“The manager acted as judge, jury and executioner when he fired the employee without hearing his side of the story.”
complex
“By unilaterally deciding the fate of his subordinates without any oversight, the director effectively became the judge, jury and executioner of the department.”
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