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Making Your Case choose

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[US] Scalia & Garner Making Your Case 8: Have you ever tried buying equipment from a salesperson who didn’t know beans about it? You might understandably have fled the store.
at know beans (v.) under beans, n.3
[US] Scalia & Garner Making Your Case 128: You want the court to develop confidence in your reasoning—not in your ability to gopher up supporting quotations.
at gopher up, v.
[US] Scalia & Garner Making Your Case 98: The Argument is the guts of your brief, the part for which all the rest is just preparation and summary.
at gut, n.
[US] Scalia & Garner Making Your Case 199: We’ve advised you to volunteer concessions that careful deliberation shows are necessary (§ 11). But concessions that you’re pressed to make on horseback, at oral argument, are something else.
at on horseback (adj.) under horse, n.
[US] Scalia & Garner Making Your Case 195: You may consider some hypotheticals to be, so to speak, off the wall. And they may indeed be so.
at off the wall, adj.
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