Perry Mason moment
Meanings
noun
- A moment during legal or judicial proceedings when evidence or other information, usually unknown to most present, is introduced into the record in a manner seen as determinative of the outcome of the proceedings regardless of whatever else occurs.
Word forms
Etymology
From the fictional lawyer Perry Mason, based on novels by Erle Stanley Gardner.
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