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take matters into your own hands
idiom
to deal with a problem yourself because the people who should have dealt with it have failed to do so: 亲自处理问题
When the police failed to catch her son's murderer, she decided to take matters into her own hands.警方没能抓到杀害她儿子的凶手，于是她决定自己来解决此事。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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aggrandize
assert your authority
assume
assumption
authoritative
cynical
get the better of someoneidiom
get your hooks into someone/somethingidiom
get/fall into the wrong handsidiom
govern
guiding principle
paternalistically
peremptorily
peremptory
play Godidiom
plenipotentiary
slow
tame
wrangle
wrangler
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