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Philadelphia lawyer
noun
- a lawyer of outstanding ability at exploiting legal fine points and technicalities.
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of Philadelphia lawyer1
Idioms and Phrases
A shrewd attorney, adept at dealing with legal technicalities, as in It would take a Philadelphia lawyer to get him off . This expression dates from the late 1700s and, as lexicographer Richard H. Thornton observed: 鈥淲hy members of the Philadelphia bar should be credited with superhuman sagacity has never been satisfactorily explained.鈥Example Sentences
Then one day, a Philadelphia lawyer named Bradley Bridge traveled to the upstate Pennsylvania prison where Drinks was locked up, and explained to him and the other men who had been given life sentences as boys what the ruling could mean for them.
In New York, for example, one firm led by Philadelphia lawyer Michael van der Veen is guaranteed $25,000 per month from the president鈥檚 PAC for work on New York legal cases, according to an agreement reviewed by The Post.
Shanin Specter, a Philadelphia lawyer and son of the late Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, said in an interview some voters might regard one debate as insufficient.
鈥淭he real professionals know it鈥檚 going to be very tough,鈥 Shanin Specter, a Philadelphia lawyer and son of Senator Arlen Specter, said.
Jim Schultz, a Philadelphia lawyer who served in Trump鈥檚 White House, published an opinion piece on Monday in support of Shapiro.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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