| 词汇 | sea lawyer |
| 词源 | sea lawyer. Back in 1867 one crusty old salt defined sea law- yer as “an idle litigious long-shorer, more given to questioning orders than to obeying them, one of the pests of the navy as well as the mercantile marine.” This term for an argumentative seaman or nautical nuisance given to questioning regulations is still used, and the type is still with us for better or worse. A good example is the officer responsible for the mutiny against Captain Queeg in Herman Wouk’s The Caine Mutiny. Because it is so clever and cunning, the tiger shark is also called the sea lawyer, as is the gray, or mangrove, snapper. |
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