NOUN
- a person used by another to gain an end
- a hitch in the middle of rope that has two eyes into which tackle can be hooked
How To Use cat's-paw In A Sentence
- The question is, where do you put political muscle behind these sentiments so that the Saudis stop supporting Wahhabi Islam and al Qaeda and even the Palestinians, who've been used as a cat's-paw to direct pressure from these autocracies? Obama's Sense of Ummah
- That was unmistakable, but from what he'd heard a few moments ago he was the super-Terminator's cat's-paw. T2: INFILTRATOR
- That was unmistakable, but from what he'd heard a few moments ago he was the super-Terminator's cat's-paw. T2: INFILTRATOR
- Even if this book is propaganda, and Mother Teresa the cat's-paw of Vatican fundamentalists, there's something here beyond the muckraker's ken. Trashing Mother Teresa
- This for the outsetting: light-hearted badinage, a fair summer afternoon, a zephyrish breeze coming in tiny cat's-paws out of the north-west, and a cloudless sky. The Price
- Playing cat's-paw to the Administration, Congress has turned aside all demands for an independent investigation of Abu Ghraib and the other horrors -- and of the policies that led to them. Anthony Lewis: The Torture Administration
- President Jonathan F. Fanton says broadening the restrictions would turn the NEA into a censoring Obscenity Board, a conservative cat's-paw usurping the courts. Fine Art Or Foul?
- Informed with his will and wisdom, the Elsinore was no cat's-paw. CHAPTER XXX
- The question is, where do you put political muscle behind these sentiments so that the Saudis stop supporting Wahhabi Islam and al Qaeda and even the Palestinians, who've been used as a cat's-paw to direct pressure from these autocracies? Obama's Sense of Ummah
- Over Great End, Skiddaw and Blencathra it hurtled, sending cat's-paws racing across the lakes of Bassenthwaite, Derwentwater, Windermere, Coniston Water and fjord-like Ullswater. Country diary: Lake District
