What’s the difference between a lawyer and an attorney? None, really, for most of us. In the past, though, the word attorney could also refer more generally to a person you “turned to” to represent you, regardless of whether that person had legal training. This is part of a complete episode. How would you fare in a quiz of idiom meanings? If you’re looking to bone up on these colloquial expressions, the American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms is a good place to start. This is part of a complete episode.
Leave a comment
1 comment
More from this show
Quiz Guy John Chaneski’s puzzle was inspired by the Greek letter chi. All of the answers contain the letters C-H-I. For example, if you see a man standing idly by while his wife struggles with grocery bags, you might surmise that...
Quiz Guy John Chaneski is pondering books with titles that include an anagram. For example, what might you call Stephen Hawking’s heavy coffee-table book about people’s attempts over the centuries to get enough roughage in their diet...
I am a long time listener and I love your show.
I work mostly at banks along side with lawyers, but I’m not a lawyer. What I learn from them is that anyone who graduated from a law school can call themselves lawyers but only those who passed bar exams, meaning have license to practice law, can call themselves attorneys.
Have you heard any similar comments?