barrack-room lawyer

Meanings

nounbarrack-room lawyer (plural barrack-room lawyers)

slanggovernmentA know-it-all.
"Dot" Williams: If you were any kind of senior officer, you wouldn't have sent such an inexperienced young policeman out on such a dangerous job. Senior Sergeant Grossmith: Hooked yourself a regular barracks room lawyer, I see.
2012 May 4, Shelley Birse, “Blood and Circuses” (34:38 from the start), in Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, season 1, episode 11
Synonyms: barracks lawyer

nounA know-it-all.

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