Sentence examples for like a lapdog from inspiring English sources

He said, 'I am going to make this into a first-class office.' You wanted to follow him around like a lapdog".

As an article in this newspaper explained on Friday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which is supposed to act as the nation's watchdog over the energy industry, lately seems more like a lapdog.

The media follows like a lapdog.

More like a lapdog than a watchdog, it rarely challenges the validity of drug company data.

But the fact that it's Trump, who has so alienated much of the rest of the world — "I try so hard to be his friend," he tweeted, of Kim Jong Un, before word came of their potential meeting — makes a world leader who can forge some points of agreement with him look like less of a lapdog than an elephant tamer.

During an interview in his office he held a large alloyed bar of gold, silver and copper in his lap and stroked it like an emperor might pet a lapdog.

Not quite all – Chummy's copper hubby, he's OK; maybe a bit of a lapdog, but at least he's not rotten to the core like the rest of them.

"We need a watchdog, not a lapdog," Mr. Shelby said.

"A lapdog doesn't open eight separate investigations," he said.

"I'm not a lapdog cut person and I won't tow the party line.

So week after week, we do Clegg as a lapdog, a ventriloquist's dummy.