guardhouse lawyer

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noun Military Slang.

a person in military service, especially an inmate of a guardhouse or brig, who is or claims to be an authority on military law, regulations, and soldiers' rights.

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Origin of guardhouse lawyer

First recorded in 1925–30

Words nearby guardhouse lawyer

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How to use guardhouse lawyer in a sentence

He first rose to prominence as a lawyer in Queens, who settled a boiling racial dispute over public housing in Forest Hills.
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As the director of Freedom Now, I hold Intigam Aliyev in high esteem and have long respected his work as a human-rights lawyer.
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His court-appointed lawyer was drinking a quart of liquor per day.
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“At worst, Eric picked up a garbage can, was told by police to put it down, and did,” his lawyer, Martin Stoler, insisted.
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The sharpened faculties have something of a lawyer's quickness in detecting a flaw in the indictment.
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Sebastian Brandt died; counsellor of Strassburg, a lawyer, and author of a curious poem.
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But a lawyer who needed the wherewithal finally condescended to risk the task, and into it he plunged.
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"Fortunate," the Reverend repeated, thoughtfully, and looking up found the lawyer's eyes upon him.
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If a client goes to a lawyer for advice the first thing the lawyer asks him to do is to make a clean breast of it.
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