be the creature of sb/sth
formal disapprovingto do everything that you are asked to do by a particular person or organization, without question:
He had become the creature of the secret police.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Obedient and compliant
- accordance
- acquiescent
- adherence
- answer to sb
- be (like) sheep idiom
- clean
- clean up your act idiom
- creature
- dutiful
- easy
- follower
- I'm easy idiom
- obedience
- obedient
- slavish
- slavishly
- subservient
- tie
- tied to your mother's/wife's apron strings idiom
- tractable
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