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
- If you want my full and undivided attention-- I mean, if you want me rigidly alert like a German guard-dog-- simply compile an intriguing set of "dots" which include phrases like: "...he never realized he was being used as a cat's-paw in a conspiracy. Your Right Hand Thief
- JEFFREY: ... when they get a government on the ground in place that is stable, they're not going to want to be a cat's-paw of the Iranian regime. CNN Transcript Mar 17, 2006
- Israel was "doing the Lord's work," defending freedom against the "Iranian cat's-paw" of terrorism. The Peter Principle Playoffs
- 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
- But in forging his cat's-paw, he seemed to have imbued Parker Wheatley with a fixed conviction that the Sidhe were the implacable enemy of humanity and must be destroyed, and apparently Wheatley didn't intend to abandon his mission just because he'd lost his insider position in Washington. Music to My Sorrow
- If you want my full and undivided attention-- I mean, if you want me rigidly alert like a German guard-dog-- simply compile an intriguing set of "dots" which include phrases like: "...he never realized he was being used as a cat's-paw in a conspiracy. Your Right Hand Thief
- For three years the spotted owl has been a cat's-paw in the battle over national forests, which lumber companies are allowed to log. The Birds And The Trees
- For three years the spotted owl has been a cat's-paw in the battle over national forests, which lumber companies are allowed to log. The Birds And The Trees
- JEFFREY: ... when they get a government on the ground in place that is stable, they're not going to want to be a cat's-paw of the Iranian regime. CNN Transcript Mar 17, 2006
- 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?