friend in court
Example Sentences
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For one thing, he won for his cause a powerful friend in court: the Justice Department.
From Time Magazine Archive
The unions may have a friend in court.
From Time Magazine Archive
Because she may be very useful to us, Ronald; and if you can't find a friend in court, it's just as well to have one near court.
From Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
He was bloody safe he wasn't run in himself under the act that time as a rogue and vagabond only he had a friend in court.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
Yes, it would be worth something to know that they had a friend in court when that time rolled around.
From The Boy Scouts in the Blue Ridge Marooned Among the Moonshiners by Carter, Herbert
