jack-in-office

How to use jack-in-office in a sentence

• They warned off the rabble with the insolence every jack-in-office displays towards his inferiors.

  The Great Mogul | Louis Tracy

• Well, she is a disagreeable, tyrannical sort of female jack-in-office; but she has her good points.

  Fix Bay'nets | George Manville Fenn

• She's full of red-tape notions, and a jack-in-office to-day because the Empress has left her in charge.

  A Patriotic Schoolgirl | Angela Brazil

• Just another example of pettish bureaucracy, the officiousness of the jack-in-office.

  Greener Than You Think | Ward Moore

• He was never shocked, and nothing made him angry, except cruelty or a jack-in-office.

  A Young Man's Year | Anthony Hope