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detail man
noun as in traveling salesman
Example Sentences
These songs swing, they shout, they rock; “Repo Man” is Springsteen at his televangelist shouter best, “Detail Man” is a rollicking number about booty calls — “You want the job done right any time of day or night/Call your detail man” — that features a righteous harmonica, and just when you think this is all about a good time, “You’re Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone” is a tears-in-your-beer ballad with beautifully heartbreaking pedal steel courtesy of Marty Rifkin.
“He is a detail man,” Bryant said, “and a brilliant enabler,” who sees the big picture, but is happy to talk about the proper location of waste bins.
The Post once called him a “quiet manager, a detail man who some employees say appears to feel more comfortable with computer printouts than with his colleagues.”
Within the White House, a reporter for The Washington Post wrote in 1988, Mr. Duberstein was regarded as the “key detail man, the behind-the-scene choreographer whose actions were increasingly vital for a president renowned as a generalist.”
As Dunn points out, he was a detail man, not a big thinker like his uncle.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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