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lawyer
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   Also found in: Dictionary/thesaurus, Legal, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia, Hutchinson 0.02 sec.
any [judge/lawyer/teacher etc.] worth their salt
any judge, lawyer, teacher etc. who is good at their job Any lawyer worth his salt should be aware of the latest changes in taxation. No judge worth her salt would attempt to influence the jury.
See also: any, salt, worth

be wearing your [teacher's/lawyer's etc.] hat  also have your [teacher's/lawyer's etc.] hat on

to be acting as you do when you are working as a teacher, lawyer etc., which may be different from the way you act in other situations I was wearing my teacher's hat at the meeting.
See also: hat


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Among the ''scholars'' they have assembled the main technique is to, in a lawyerly fashion, pick at nits in the Holocaust narrative.
Relentlessly politically-incorrect, it impressed by its sheer lawyerly reasoning and refreshing polemic skill.
advocates have their say; the film's frontispiece is the lawyerly Latin phrase Res ipsa loquitur, "the thing speaks for itself.
 
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