Brewer's: Ambi-dexter

properly means both hands right hands; a double dealer; a juror who takes money from both parties for his verdict; one who can use his left hand as deftly as his right.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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