hila Idiom, Proverb
big enchilada
big enchilada see under
big cheese.
enchilada
enchilada see
big cheese;
whole ball of wax, the.
Philadelphia lawyer
Philadelphia lawyer A shrewd attorney, adept at dealing with legal technicalities, as in
It would take a Philadelphia lawyer to get him off. This expression dates from the late 1700s and, as lexicographer Richard H. Thornton observed: “Why members of the Philadelphia bar should be credited with superhuman sagacity has never been satisfactorily explained.”