barrack-room lawyer — (UK) A barrack room lawyer is a person who gives opinions on things they are not qualified to speak about … The small dictionary of idiomes
barrack-room lawyer — noun 1. An argumentative soldier given to disputing military procedure 2. Hence any insistent but unqualified giver of advice • • • Main Entry: ↑barrack … Useful english dictionary
barrack-room lawyer — ► NOUN Brit. ▪ a person who speaks with apparent authority on subjects in which they are not qualified … English terms dictionary
Barrack-Room Ballads — The Barrack Room Ballads are a set of martial songs and poems by Rudyard Kipling originally published in two parts: the first set in 1892, the second in 1896. Many have become classic military ditties, still well known, and are closely linked to… … Wikipedia
barrack-room lawyer — (UK) A barrack room lawyer is a person who gives opinions on things they are not qualified to speak about. (Dorking School Dictionary) … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
barrack-room — barrˈack room adjective (of humour, etc) somewhat coarse • • • Main Entry: ↑barrack … Useful english dictionary
Barrack-Room Ballads — /bar euhk roohm , room / a volume of poems (1892) by Rudyard Kipling, including Gunga Din, Danny Deever, and Mandalay. * * * … Universalium
Barrack-Room Ballads — /bar euhk roohm , room / a volume of poems (1892) by Rudyard Kipling, including Gunga Din, Danny Deever, and Mandalay … Useful english dictionary
BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS — ballads by Rudyard Kipling, with a fine martial strain … The Nuttall Encyclopaedia
barrack-room lawyer — an opinionated but well informed know all Usually an old soldier who combines knowledge of army regulations with experience and bloody mindedness. In America also as barracks lawyer and in the navy as ship s lawyer or sea lawyer: Who… … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
barrack-room lawyer — noun Brit. a person who makes authoritative sounding pronouncements on subjects in which they are not qualified … English new terms dictionary