| 单词 | to carry water for |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto carry water for b. U.S. colloquial (chiefly Politics). to carry water for (also to carry (another's) water): to be the lackey of; to do the bidding of; to serve the interests of. Cf. water carrier n. 1c(a).In early use sometimes as part of an extended metaphor. ΚΠ 1963 R. McA. Brown tr. G. Casalis Portrait K. Barth ii. 68 The Russian authorities and the German communists..soon discovered that [Barth]..was not their man and that they had been deceived if they counted on him to carry water for the mill of eastern propaganda [Fr. pour apporter de l'eau au moulin de la propagande orientale]. 1965 Human Events 17 Apr. 1/3 Mr. Dirksen, for reasons best known to himself, has more often than not been carrying water for his Democratic colleagues. 1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 13 June Hua may have been carrying water for Yeh and other army leaders when he purged a dogmatist clique..and took the chairmanship, but he can no longer be considered just a front man. 1994 J. Carroll City Below 287 ‘Who would you be talking to, Squire?’ ‘Frank.’ ‘I thought that might be it. You still carrying his water?’ 2014 Internat. N.Y. Times (Nexis) 17 Dec. (Finance section) 16 Aides to the congressman said he was in no way carrying water for Wall Street. < as lemmas |
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