indict a ham sandwich
verb/ɪnˈdaɪt‿ə ˌhæm ˈsændwɪt͡ʃ/US
Etymology
Possibly alluding to ham sandwich (“something utterly commonplace, of modest value”). The term was popularized by the American jurist Sol Wachtler (born 1930) who used it in 1985 shortly after his appointment as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals when expressing the view that the use of grand juries to bring indictments should be abolished: see the quotation from 1985.
Definitions
Of a grand jury
Of a grand jury: to charge a person with a crime, despite a perceived lack of evidence.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for indict a ham sandwich. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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