dog-catcher

British  

noun

1. a local official whose job is to catch and impound stray dogs, cats, etc

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Example Sentences

“Romney couldn’t be elected dog-catcher in Utah right now,” he said.

From Washington Times

Mr. Trump said the senator couldn’t have been elected dog-catcher.

From Washington Times

After Corker went on NBC’s Today on Tuesday and said Trump’s White House should let Congress decide how to pay for his tax cuts, Trump fired back with the first of a series of tweets, writing that Corker “couldn’t get elected dog-catcher in Tennessee”.

From The Guardian

I mean, all you need to acknowledge in order to embrace this epiphany is how solidly immured in the wilderness Democrats are at all levels of our governance from president down to local dog-catcher.

From New York Times

“And I have lived my entire career by the tradition that if you can possibly avoid it, you avoid any action in the run-up to an election that might have an impact, whether it’s a dog-catcher election or President of the United States. But as I sat there that morning, I could not see a door labelled ‘no action here.’

From The New Yorker