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Traditional English :: lawyer
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lawyer.html - n. a member of the legal profession, esp. a solicitor. lawyerly adj. [ME law(i)er f. LAW] |
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Traditional English :: lawyer
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lawyer.html - n. a member of the legal profession, esp. a solicitor. lawyerly adj. [ME law(i)er f. LAW] |
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Traditional English :: lawyer
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lawyer.html - n. a member of the legal profession, esp. a solicitor. lawyerly adj. [ME law(i)er f. LAW] |
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English Idioms :: law
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lawyer.html - See: LAY DOWN THE LAW, PARLIAMENTARY LAW, TAKE THE LAW INTO ONE'S OWN HANDS. |
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English Idioms :: law of averages
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lawyer.html - {n. phr.} The idea that you can't win all the time or lose all the time. * /The Celtics have won 10 games in a row but the law of averages will catch up with them soon./ |
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English Idioms :: law unto oneself
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lawyer.html - {n. phr.}, {literary} A person who does only what he wishes; a person who ignores or breaks the law when he doesn't like it. * /Everybody in Germany feared Hitler because he was a law unto himself./ * /Mr. Brown told Johnny that he must stop trying to be a law unto himself./ Compare: TAKE THE LAW INTO ONE'S OWN HANDS. |
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