Advertisement

Advertisement

View definitions for cat's-paw

cat's-paw

noun as in pawn

Discover More

Example Sentences

I saw them pick up their cat's-paw invitations and walk over to the band where I was standing beside my red wagon.

How can it shed its image as a cat's-paw of the Chinese government and break into the largest telecommunications market in the world?

His cat's-paw presented itself in the shape of Millais.

"Was it an explosive?" demanded Slyne, almost boiling over at the idea that he had unwittingly been risking his life as a cat's-paw.

She felt the wind in a "cat's-paw" now and then, and so the helm lost its control of her, and she went banging against first one berg and then another.

Advertisement

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement