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

Descended from a primordial atomic globule, you know, like Pooh Bah.

From A Prefect's Uncle by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

Perhaps there was never in America an instance in which a high official so nearly fulfilled the part of "Pooh Bah."

From James Otis, the pre-revolutionist by Ridpath, John Clark

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

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)