be sb's poodle
UK humorous disapprovingto be too willing to support or be controlled by someone in authority:
They accused the Labour party of being the unions' poodle.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Weakness and vulnerability
- Achilles heel
- at a low ebb idiom
- be (only) flesh and blood idiom
- chink in sb's armour idiom
- debility
- ebb
- faint
- indefensible
- lax
- limp
- malleable
- man of straw
- susceptible
- toothless
- totter
- underbelly
- unprotected
- unsteady
- vulnerable
- wraith
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