Jersey justice

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Jersey justice

A punishment or act of justice that is or appears to be much more severe than the offence warrants. Primarily heard in UK. Twenty years in jail for stealing a car? That sounds like Jersey justice to me.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Celio	CHE-lyo (Italian), THE-lyo (Spanish), SE-lyo (Latin American Spanish), SE-lyoo (Portuguese)	Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Cosmin	-	Romanian
Cole	[kəul]
Franca	-	Italian
Ilina	-	Bulgarian, Macedonian
Teodor	te-AW-dawr (Polish), TE-o-dor (Croatian)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Romanian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Hungarian,