Diuretic

There are many important and (in my jurisdiction) bewigged and be-robed personnel in a courtroom but a witness, at their peril, upsets the court reporter. I well remember giving evidence in a matter and I must have been responding to defence counsel questions a little too rapidly because I remember the pause in the tempo of the court reporter' steno work and a huge, theatrical sigh coming from her when she cocked her head and glared at me as I stood in the witness box. I got the message.