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"cat's paw" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a phrase that is used to describe someone who is being used as a tool by someone else to accomplish an agenda that is not in their best interests. For example: "The politician convinced his colleague to challenge the mayor's proposed budget using his cats paw."
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cat's paw
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Alternative form of cat's-paw
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Grand Master Festing was Burke's cat's paw.
It was five inches wide — a big cat's paw, splayed.
The noose caught around the cat's paw, the front leg was snared.
One of More's cat's paw hangers-on warns Cromwell: "The Cardinal is finished, leave him now".
Cromwell instructs Richard Rich, his cat's paw – now solicitor general – to do it personally.
Some Newarkers already see Mr. Booker as the governor's cat's paw.
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Congress played its obligatory role in acting as the NRA's cat's-paw by repeatedly rejecting bills to provide $10 million for the work.
This testimony tempts one to believe that De Lyra is no more than a cat's-paw for Donovan's canine machinations.
The Daily Worker has obediently churned ou the line a out brave little North Korea's wicked aggressor, the cat's-paw of American imperialism.
This gangster is the cat's-paw of corruption.
Each side accuses the other of atrocities and of acting as a cat's-paw for foreign powers.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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