Legal beagle

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A legal eagle, though curiously a more pejorative term, suggestive of the sort of obsessive who can’t wee the wood for the trees and just can’t let a manky, unsightly, aggratvating point that everyone wishes she would just drop, go.

See also

• Legal eagle