wirepuller — Từ điển tiếng Anh

Danh từ

1. A person who exercises an influence on others that is felt but not seen.

   Cách dùng

   • idiomatic
   • không trang trọng

   Ví dụ

   Thêm ví dụ (2)

   'Filled with old doddering peers, cute financial magnates, clever wirepullers, big brewers with bulbous noses. All the enemies of progress are there — weaklings, sleek, slug, comfortable, self-important individuals.

   […] there lies, alas, the tragedy of the millions of lives immolated by the ignorant peoples as the price paid for the deception practised upon them by the Imperialistic wirepullers.

2. Synonym of snake (“tool for pulling cables”).