legal eagle
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of legal eagle
First recorded in 1935–40
Example Sentences
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With a mountain of debt, Giuliani apparently cannot afford to pay his legal fees let alone fork over the kind of hefty retainer such a legal eagle would command.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 17, 2023
Goodell has added another female legal eagle to the team — former Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch — to represent the NFL in the discrimination lawsuit filed by former Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores.
From Washington Times • Feb. 22, 2022
Grisham has even written a YA legal series featuring a 13-year-old amateur legal eagle named “Theodore Boone.”
From Washington Post • Oct. 21, 2019
Last seen as “Marvel’s Agent Carter,” Hayley Atwell is equal parts wild child and legal eagle in the new courtroom drama “Conviction.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2016
But Belle and I have got to have another conference with the legal eagle.
From The Galaxy Primes by Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer)
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