You forgot the period. " To lawyer up is to acquire a lawyer to defend yourself against possible criminal prosecution. The boy in the cartoon has stretched that meaning to include civil action.
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That is the common lazy way of saying "Then you had better lawyer up." To lawyer up is to acquire a lawyer to defend yourself against possible criminal prosecution. The boy in the cartoon has stretched that mea