dogsbody
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Aiding everyone is Lisa Kwak as The Mute, a sort of onstage stagehand and dogsbody who distributes props as needed, moves set pieces and generally keeps the show moving.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 1, 2024
Shelley is forbearance personified but she’s tired of being taken by Mira “for a dogsbody, a beta fish, a bridesmaid, a ride-along.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2023
I was 21, and worked at French Vogue as a general dogsbody and, just like Emily, my French boss despaired of me.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 17, 2020
In pursuit of her, he enlists as a dogsbody on the Ibn Battuta, a ferry between Tangier and Algeciras.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2018
Manchester City's match programme delivered a temptation impossible for fate to resist when it described Luis Suarez as "the dogsbody in this trio of artful dodgers" in comparison to Barcelona superstars Lionel Messi and Neymar.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2015
It could become a palace of unelected hacks and dogsbodies, unlikely to provide independent and considered advice.
From Time Magazine Archive
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