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You can use it to describe someone whose opinions always agree with those of their superiors or with the majority opinion in a group. For example: "My boss only wants to hear 'yes men' in meetings, so no one ever challenges his ideas."
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yes men
noun
Plural of yes man
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We are not yes men.
He didn't surround himself with a bunch of yes men.
It's a bunch of followers, or "yes men" or women.
In that way, Roosevelt avoided surrounding himself with yes men.
And he has hardly surrounded himself with yes men.
One told the Guardian the replacements would be "yes men".
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Is it that the monied interests prefer a yes man to an honest leader?
Another lawmaker called him a "yes man," a notion that Mr. Stockman disputed.
A "yes" man provides zero motivation.
Not everyone sets out to be a "yes" man or work martyr.
Aziz was known as being the ultimate "yes" man to the Iraqi president.
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