The claim that someone was "only doing their job" or "merely following orders" to excuse causing grief to someone else when they could have just as easily been helpful. Eichmann was the chief organizer of the Nazi 'final solution' to the 'Jewish question' and claimed (unsuccesfully) at his trial that he had only done what he had been ordered to do.
Car owner: I was only gone for two minutes, how could you tow my car?
Meter Maid: (smugly) I'm just doing my job.
Car Owner: Oh yes. The Eichmann Defense
Weasle line-manager: I stopped your merit award this year but I'm only following departmental guidelines.
Employee: Ah yes. The Eichmann defense.
Meter Maid: (smugly) I'm just doing my job.
Car Owner: Oh yes. The Eichmann Defense
Weasle line-manager: I stopped your merit award this year but I'm only following departmental guidelines.
Employee: Ah yes. The Eichmann defense.
by robbo99 June 25, 2009
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Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): -erd; -·ing
transitive senses : to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source
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Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): -erd; -·ing
transitive senses : to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source
sentence
example :1. The student was caught eichelberging and was kicked out of school. 2. The artist was shocked to discover he was being eichelbergerd.
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The Eichacker family is a direct descendant of Christian Metz, who was the charismatic founder of the Amana Society in New York and Iowa.
The Eichacker family is a direct descendant of Christian Metz, who was the charismatic founder of the Amana Society in New York and Iowa.
He was a fine Eichacker.
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