riot act   (TTS Sound)

The riot_act has 2 Senses.

• riot act
• a vigorous reprimand; "I read him the riot act"
• 厳しい叱責

• riot act
• a former English law requiring mobs to disperse after a magistrate reads the law to them
• 軽罪判事が群衆にその法律を読んだ後に解散するように要求するかつての英国の法律