cat s paw n. 被人作为工具利用的人(受人愚弄的人) The old lady fondled her cat as it sat beside her.
权威例句
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There's angel step, cat's paw, peanut shell and flower grain.
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But Hizbullah, the Lebanese guerrilla group that is widely seen as a Syrian cat's paw, has pointedly raised the heat on Israel's northern border.
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Not to put too fine a point on it, he acted as a cat's-paw for his boss, Punch Sulzberger, when the publisher got rid of his own more liberal cousin, John Oakes, as editor of the editorial page.