jack-in-office
Britishnoun
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He was equally fine as Malvolio: a preening, stiff-gaited jack-in-office who, like all first-rate Malvolios, enlisted one's sympathy in his downfall.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 18, 2013
But last week Franz Josef Strauss was learning firsthand the full depth of West Germans' postwar distaste for jack-in-office arrogance.
From Time Magazine Archive
The people you are with will get the necessary papers, and fill them in for you; but I wanted to see whether the German jack-in-office was as bad as his reputation makes him.
From Home Life in Germany by Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick
But between a "wise administrator" and a "jack-in-office" there is all the difference in the world.
From Loyal to the School by Angela Brazil
But even that jack-in-office could perceive that the poor Captain thought of his sick wife up stairs, and his little children, ten times for one thought he ever gave to his own position.
From Erema — My Father's Sin by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
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