| 单词 | straw boss |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstraw boss straw boss n. originally U.S. a subordinate or assistant foreman. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to status > [noun] > overseer or foreman > assistant or subordinate straw boss1894 pannikin boss1898 pannikinc1926 1894 W. H. Carwardine Pullman Strike ix. 117 These employees..had been so ground between the upper millstone of ‘low wages’ and the nether millstone of ‘high rents’, the continued oppression of the ‘straw bosses’, [etc.]. 1915 S. Lewis Trail of Hawk ii. xiii. 132 He had laughed away the straw boss who tried to make him go ask for a left-handed monkey-wrench. 1945 ‘N. Shute’ Most Secret viii. 172 Them Frenchies won't work right without they have a straw-boss. 1976 L. St. Clair Fortune in Death x. 98 Dimestores, cafeterias, moving to a new job..every time some greasy straw boss ran his hand up my skirt. < as lemmas |
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