From the headline of this article at Mother Jones.
上記の文で、lawyer upの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "lawyer up" mean?
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解答
意味： 英辞郎によると、〈主に米話〉〔裁判の当事者などが〕弁護士を立てる［選任する]
Answer
According to Merriam-Webster:to obtain the services of a lawyer especially while being investigated for possible wrongdoing
Etymology/語源
Merriam-Websterによると、初めての使用されたのは、1995年
According to Merriam-Webster:
First Known Use of lawyer up
1995
Examples
- He lawyered up, but only after he confessed to being in Cheryl's apartment.
- What really spooks the honest, hard-working, likable, routinely successful detectives on “N.Y.P.D. Blue” is the prospect of a suspect “lawyering up.” The detectives cajole and threaten to keep the probable perp from exercising his right to counsel, because once a sharp lawyer appears the client will say nothing and the audience will be deprived of the confession that climaxes so many episodes. — Walter Goodman, New York Times, 23 Feb. 1995
- The people at Madoff who had been highly compensated were the ones they were looking at. In the end, most of those people “lawyered up” or fled. — Eleanor Squillari et al., Vanity Fair, June 2009
- They should tell him the only course of action is to show up and tell the truth, come what may. But now he's all lawyered up, so that's not going to happen. He's all but untouchable now. — Christine Brennan, USA Today, 22 May 2014
- The interview ended abruptly when the suspect lawyered up.
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