Sentence examples for cat's-paw from inspiring English sources
noun
A pawn or dupe; somebody who has been unwittingly tricked into acting in another's interest.
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.
As the greatest northern painter of the counter-reformation he has long been seen as the cat's-paw of the Catholic establishment and a skilled, even shameless, propagandist.
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.
