dogsbody
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Moore, 65, says he was a "general dogsbody" at Legacy.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2026
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
Powell stayed at Duckworth’s, as an all-purpose dogsbody, for ten mostly unhappy years.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 5, 2018
Cast Stephen Fry as a blazing Colonel Tom Parker, deeply suspicious of the King’s new Limey advisor hired on a whim, and have dogsbody Baldrick constantly muttering “Don’t be cruel.”
From The Guardian ● Aug. 24, 2015
It could become a palace of unelected hacks and dogsbodies, unlikely to provide independent and considered advice.
From Time Magazine Archive
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