Sentence examples for understrapper from inspiring English sources

Then he was made deputy leader of the house, which makes him Harriet Harman's understrapper.

His understrapper, Liam Byrne, took his place.

It was the work of some understrapper who is, even now, probably hanging from his thumbs in a dungeon listening to Michael Fabricant's greatest speeches on a continuous loop.

He praised George Soros, the ­financier, for saying that the economy was improving – the same George Soros who had whisked £2bn from under the noses of Norman Lamont and his then understrapper David Cameron on Black Wednesday in 1992.

We commend this approach to the next parliamentary understrapper who has to rescue his boss from some Patersonian blunder.

Mullin reports how Prescott overturns one of his understrapper's few decisions, but civil servants proceed as if he hadn't.

Often his eyes seemed to be closed, though I am certain this had nothing to do with sleep; he just wished to concentrate on what his understrappers were saying.