ambulance chaser
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- noun
- /ˈæmbjʊləns ˈtʃeɪsər/
- Offensive
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abogado cazaclientes
- Look, you know as well as I do that as far as the more elite legal community in this country goes, you're nothing more than a glorified ambulance chaser.
- call me an ambulance chaser
Well, you don't know then you know, when you get like, you know, an ambulance chaser, which is who they got.
- Well, you don't know then you know, when you get like, you know, an ambulance chaser, which is who they got.
Examples
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The lawyer's reputation suffered after he was labeled an ambulance chaser for his aggressive tactics in pursuing personal injury cases.
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I'll just be a rich ambulance chaser.
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The man's an ambulance chaser.
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Law school has been cranking out more ambulance chasers than we can possibly use.
Blog text (1) -
- She's the premiere ambulance chaser in the city.
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He is acting just like some sort of ambulance chaser promoting a bogus claim.
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Many people consider him an ambulance chaser because he often approaches accident victims in the hospital.
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As an ambulance chaser, she actively seeks out clients who have been in car accidents to offer her legal services.
Synonyms
A lawyer who goes to accidents or emergencies to find clients for injury cases
Surface Forms
Morphology
Although the literal composition 'ambulance' + 'chaser' readily yields the image of someone who pursues ambulances, the established idiomatic meaning—specifically a derogatory term for a lawyer who seeks out accident victims—is a culture-specific metaphorical extension. A B1 learner who knows the constituent words might guess someone who follows emergency scenes but would not reliably infer the legal/derogatory sense without prior exposure.
Etymology
Ambulance chaser may come from the image of a chaser literally running after an ambulance to find people hurt in accidents. One popular story says these people were 'lawyers' who went to hospitals to encourage victims 'to sue', so the phrase now means a lawyer who looks for accident clients for their own gain.