there ought to be a law

English

Phrase

there ought to be a law

1. Indicates disapproval of a situation.
   • 1970, Merle Hodge, Crick Crack, Monkey, Heinemann, published 2000, →ISBN, page 111:

     There ought to be a law, said Auntie Beatrice, people like that living up against decent people, something should be done. […] Auntie Beatrice willed Divine Judgement, or an epidemic, or simple eviction, upon the boy and his mother. […]

   • 1985, Ira Wood, The Kitchen Man, Leapfrog Press, published 1998, →ISBN, page 17:

     Doesn't it kill you how somebody who looks so attractive can be so brilliant? God, there ought to be a law. She looks just like Julie Christie.