legal beagle
A lawyer, specifically one regarded as astute and skilful.
He was a prosecutor before entering private practice and gaining a reputation as a legal beagle.
beagle
/ˈbiːɡəl/
noun 4verb 2name 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
aboard, good
VERB + BEAGLE
back, police, sailed, want
BEAGLE + NOUN
years
PREP.
on
Definitions
noun
1
A small short-legged smooth-coated scenthound, often tricolored and sometimes used for hunting hares. Its friendly disposition makes it suitable as a family pet.
2
A person who snoops on others; a detective.
[…]whereas burying a body in the wooded area beyond the backyard was the quickest way to make a Nassau County Police Department beagle look good.
3
A bailiff.
4
A small kind of shark.
verb
1
To hunt with beagles.
[…] reading men who beagled for fresh air and exercise, impecunious hunting men who beagled for economy[…]
2
To search.
[…]Pope clapped his hand to his forehead and beagled like a maniac; he had clean forgotten Thorofare Gap.
name
1
A surname.
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[…]whereas burying a body in the wooded area beyond the backyard was the quickest way to make a Nassau County Police Department beagle look good.
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[…] reading men who beagled for fresh air and exercise, impecunious hunting men who beagled for economy[…]
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[…]Pope clapped his hand to his forehead and beagled like a maniac; he had clean forgotten Thorofare Gap.
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He has a foxhound beagle.
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The Beagle, which had been commissioned by the British Admiralty to explore and chart the coast of South America, employed Darwin as its onboard naturalist.
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Yet I get no repose and I can't even doze without dreaming I'm back on the Beagle.
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