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Throttlebottom

[throt-l-bot-uh m]
noun (sometimes lowercase)
  1. a harmless incompetent in public office.

Origin of Throttlebottom

after Alexander Throttlebottom, character in Of Thee I Sing (1932), musical comedy by George S. Kaufman and Morris Ryskind
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