straw boss
Example Sentences
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The one name you will not find in that essay is Lance Armstrong, who was the straw boss of the team during Vaughters’s short time around the Tour.
From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2012
Dunn will now be McNamara's straw boss in charge of some $1 billion worth of work and 40,000 military and civilian engineers.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the state cops were leaving Tuskegee, Wallace's on-the-scene straw boss, State Finance Director Seymore Trammell, walked up to Mayor Rutherford.
From Time Magazine Archive
Laughlin will be publisher and straw boss of Perspectives, but "to avoid any taint of cultism," each issue will have a different editor.
From Time Magazine Archive
The straw boss had no faith in her, having watched her sweating hard to fill her sack as quickly as the children, but she was highly and suddenly vocal in her determination.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
