dogsbody

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Aiding everyone is Lisa Kwak as The Mute, a sort of onstage stagehand and dogsbody who distributes props as needed, moves set pieces and generally keeps the show moving.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 1, 2024

Shelley is forbearance personified but she’s tired of being taken by Mira “for a dogsbody, a beta fish, a bridesmaid, a ride-along.”

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2023

Emotional and artistic complexity are perfectly poised in this account of a listless 36-year-old office dogsbody who is thrown into an existential crisis by an encounter with his estranged dad.

From The Guardian • Sep. 21, 2019

Powell stayed at Duckworth’s, as an all-purpose dogsbody, for ten mostly unhappy years.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 5, 2018

Mr Wood lacked such knowledge and would have only been able to act as a "general dogsbody", the lawyer said.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2016