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Definition of barrack-room lawyer in English: barrack-room lawyernoun British A person who likes to give authoritative-sounding opinions on subjects in which they are not qualified, especially legal matters. Example sentencesExamples - Note for the barrack-room lawyers out there - yes, we know there are instances where it does this already, but it does so for fairly arcane historical and contractual reasons, rather than as a conscious matter of strategy, OK?
- You strike me as a 'barrack room lawyer', playing semantic games.
- Although Edward Crawford was being humorous in his vision of ‘barrack-room lawyers’ deciding not to obey an order because it was illegal, there is actually a very serious point at issue here.
- "I was spending more of my time being a barrack-room lawyer than a designer, so I decided to do something about it," she says.
- So strictly speaking, there is no such thing as a counsel acknowledged by the court, and anyone who comes before this court as counsel is basically no more than a barrack room lawyer.
- He commented: ‘The only way I want to celebrate is to stop being a self-employed barrack-room lawyer.’
- I do not wish to come the barrack-room lawyer, but there is a degree of confusion about the points that we are addressing.
- It is not just the odd barrack room lawyer who will read such documents.
- A few years ago, Radio Scotland's football team began the day as barrack-room lawyers, berating the courts for flinging an unrepentant Duncan Ferguson into jail.
- Beate's role was to identify the ‘nice boys’ who would give their all for the team, and weed out the playboys and barrack-room lawyers.
- The judge knew a gallant Pole when he saw one and he also - oh dear, oh dear for Mr Blunt, who had elected to defend himself - recognised a barrack-room lawyer.
- It is drawn up by the social services department without medical advice but probably with advice from a barrack-room lawyer.
- You do not have to be much of a barrack-room lawyer to spot the holes in this argument.
- I was a barrack-room lawyer at heart, I suppose.
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