our man in ——
noun
One's representative or envoy in a specified place.
- Sometimes with allusion to Graham Greene's novel Our Man in Havana (1958)..
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in ‘Ann Bridge’ (1889–1974) (real name Mary Dolling).
- comme ci, comme ça
- commedia dell'arte
- commedietta
- comme il faut
- commemorate
- commemoration
- commemorative
- commemorator
- commemoratory
- commence
- commencement
- commend
- commendable
- commendably
- commendation
- Commendatore
- commendatory
- commensal
- commensalism
- commensality
- commensally
- commensurability
- commensurable
- commensurably
- commensurate