cat's-paw
Example Sentences
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The Tesla board, therefore, has once again behaved as Musk’s cat’s-paw.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2024
But it must begin with so-far-absent strategic analysis that includes keeping us from being a cat’s-paw for others’ ambitions.
From Washington Post • Oct. 25, 2016
His cat's-paw presented itself in the shape of Millais.
From The Guardian • Mar. 29, 2013
Antonescu himself only joined the Guard after his coup, was hooted down as the German cat's-paw who had given Transylvania to the Hungarians.
From Time Magazine Archive
At first everyone who held a cat's-paw invitation wanted to be the one to give up his gift, but I did not want that.
From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
