pooh-bah
Example Sentences
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Driven from Peking, where he was Pooh Bah in 1922, by Super-Tuchun Wu, Chang seeks to oust Wu and President Tsao Kun and resume his lordly sway in the Capital.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ayling has departed from our midst, and rumour says that he is leading a sort of Pooh Bah existence at Brigade Headquarters.
From All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand by Hay, Ian
He doesn’t know it’s only Pooh Bah speaking from different corners of the stage.
From All Roads Lead to Calvary by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
Descended from a primordial atomic globule, you know, like Pooh Bah.
From A Prefect's Uncle by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
Pooh Bah may be a very able statesman, entitled to exert his legitimate influence.
From All Roads Lead to Calvary by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
