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cat's-paw

noun as in pawn

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I saw them pick up their cat's-paw invitations and walk over to the band where I was standing beside my red wagon.

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How can it shed its image as a cat's-paw of the Chinese government and break into the largest telecommunications market in the world?

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His cat's-paw presented itself in the shape of Millais.

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"Was it an explosive?" demanded Slyne, almost boiling over at the idea that he had unwittingly been risking his life as a cat's-paw.

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She felt the wind in a "cat's-paw" now and then, and so the helm lost its control of her, and she went banging against first one berg and then another.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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