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the ball is in your court

a direct English transliteration of the french expression " la balle est dans ton camp" this expression means either

a) it is now your turn to play

or

b) it is now up to you to decide on what to do/what decision to take
mother: Angela, why are you doing drugs? I now give you choices: either you leave your current boyfriend Brandon and stop with your drugs, or you can leave this house and move in with him; in which case I will want to have nothing to do with your life. The ball is in your court.

Angela: I would like to commit suicide.

mother: that's not an option. i am taking you right now for a psyche eval.
by Sexydimma July 28, 2012
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the ball is in your court

a direct English transliteration of the french expression " la balle est dans ton camp" this expression means either

a) it is now your turn to play

or

b) it is now up to you on what to do/what decision to take
mother: Angela, why are you doing drugs? I now give you choices: either you leave your current boyfriend Brandon and stop with your drugs, or you can leave this house and move in with him; in which case I will want to have nothing to do with your life. The ball is in your court.

Angela: I would like to commit suicide.

mother: that's not an option. i am taking you right now for a psyche eval.
by Sexydimma May 19, 2012
mugGet the the ball is in your courtmug.

Supreme Court

A compound verb where an argument being made is made with minimal effort and then masked with clever sounding words.

In the April 2025 Supreme Court ruling For Women Scotland vs The Scottish ministers the ruling used the phrase "These are assumed to be self-explanatory and to require no further explanation", which is a variation on the "this is left as an exercise for the reader" and "It is self-evident that...", both forms of "Proof by Intimidation" used by junk science
- I can't be bothered explaining, I'll just Supreme Court it and hope they don't challenge me.
- "Did you just Supreme Court this and hope nobody would notice?"
- "Well, honestly... it's clearly self-evident?"
by ookerdook April 24, 2025
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courtting

(n) A person who constantly appears in front of a judge.
Stop courtting the law.
by Palabras57941 April 22, 2015
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Angel of the Court

When a) there is a 50/50 undecided call on a foul, rule, etc. in sports and there is no fair way to decide it or b) the wrong call is made, the “Angel of the Court” brings justice to the game in an obvious big play soon after in favor of whoever was wronged in the play
Did you see that bad call on Jimmy then he came back and drained that deep lucky 3? Was that the Angel of the Court or what?
by Patbu March 4, 2020
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court me love

Hey, John, court me love!
by Krkič June 18, 2020
mugGet the court me lovemug.

smut court

when everyone comes together to decide and punish the baddest girl or guy in the group for a sexual act they deny, that can be proven true or false
pod get to smut court for the crimes you have committed with chris and denying snow blowing with him
by andlausuzdixmike October 9, 2008
mugGet the smut courtmug.

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