file charges (against someone)
- file charges (against someone)
press charges (against someone) & file charges (against someone)
Fig. to make a formal charge of wrongdoing against someone. •
They agreed not to press charges against me if I agreed to pay for the damages.
Dictionary of American idioms.
2013.
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