jury box



court, courthouse, dock, town hall ,

   purser - accountant, auditor, black gang, bookkeeper, bungs, bursar, cabin boy, cashier, chamberlain, chips, commissary steward, compensator, complement, comptroller, controller,

   doggo - furtive, lurking, skulking, sneaking, stealing, stealthy, surreptitious, undercover ,

   sick joke - fun, gag, howler, jape, jest, joke, laugh, panic, play, point, riot, scream, sport, story, wheeze,

   coast seal - buckskin, ermine, fur, hide, pelt ,

   contrary to - against, counter to, in opposition to, opposed, opposite ,

   brake - arrest, back-pedal, backwater, bar, bearing rein, bit, block, bring to, bring up short, canebrake, chain, check, checkmate, chock, clip the wings,

   in commission - fixed, in condition, in force, in operation, in order, in practice, in shape, in the pink ,

   grand opera - ballet, light opera, minstrel, minstrel show, musical, musical comedy, opera, operetta, song and dance ,

   beast of burden - ass, camel, draft animal, dromedary, drudge, elephant, fag, galley slave, greasy grind, grind, grub, hack, horse, husky, llama,

   argue for - advocate, answer, assert, champion, contend for, counter, defend, espouse, maintain, rebut, refute, reply, respond, riposte, speak for,