Idiom
stand trial
Meaning
To sustain the trial or examination of a cause; not to give up without trial.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The suspect will stand trial next month.”
“After the police found enough evidence, they decided the man must stand trial for his crimes.”
“Following a lengthy investigation into the company's financial records, the former executive was ordered to stand trial for fraud.”
Examples
simple
“The suspect will stand trial next month.”
contextual
“After the police found enough evidence, they decided the man must stand trial for his crimes.”
complex
“Following a lengthy investigation into the company's financial records, the former executive was ordered to stand trial for fraud.”
Origin
From the verb *stand*, in the sense of undergoing or withstanding something, and the noun *trial*. The phrasing preserves a Middle English usage where the word denoted an act of enduring a physical or legal ordeal.
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