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D.A. n. slang for District Attorney. (See: District Attorney)


District Attorney (D.A.) n. an elected official of a county or a designated district with the responsibility for prosecuting crimes. The duties include managing the prosecutor's office, investigating alleged crimes in cooperation with law enforcement, and filing criminal charges or bringing evidence before the Grand Jury that may lead to an indictment for a crime. In some states a District Attorney is officially entitled County Attorney or State's Attorney. United States Attorneys are also called Federal District Attorneys and are prosecutors for districts (there are several in larger states) within the Department of Justice, are appointed by the President and serve at his/her pleasure.



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Add to that the 10 or so meetings he'd already had that morning and his next appointment with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, one could understand if he kept time tighter than a duck's arse (as my old editor used to say).
Riding a motorcycle and dressed like Brando in The Wild One, Mutt Williams (Shia LaBeouf) is the young 1950s sidekick with a duck's arse haircut and the hip vocabulary that every ageing star needed at the time.
When I was your age," he says, "I had a duck's arse.
 
 
 
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