English Dictionary

swearing contest

名詞

くだけた表現

(law, informal) A trial whose outcome comes down to which of two parties swearing to the truth of opposing accounts is to be believed.

日本語の意味

法律の非公式な手続きで、対立する陳述の真偽を巡る双方の宣誓内容の信憑性に基づいて勝敗が決まる裁判のこと。

The court found itself reduced to a swearing contest after both witnesses stuck to their opposing stories.

両証人が対立する供述を曲げなかったため、裁判はどちらの宣誓が信じられるかを争う状況になった。

意味（1）

(law, informal) A trial whose outcome comes down to which of two parties swearing to the truth of opposing accounts is to be believed.

Dershowitz pithily illustrates the dilemma of the courts in deciding the swearing contest in his “rules” of the criminal justice system: […]

swearing contests （ plural ）