man from the ministry
noun
A government official or bureaucrat, especially of an officious kind.
Origin
1960s; earliest use found in The Listener. From the name of a BBC Radio programme, The Men from the Ministry, first broadcast in 1962.
- self-murderer
- self-mutilation
- self-named
- self-neglect
- selfness
- self-observation
- self-obsessed
- self-obsession
- self-opinion
- self-opinionated
- self-parodic
- self-parody
- self-parodying
- self-perpetuating
- self-perpetuation
- self-pity
- self-pitying
- self-pityingly
- self-policing
- self-pollinated
- self-pollinating
- self-pollination
- self-pollinator
- self-portrait
- self-portraiture