wirepuller
[wahyuh r-poo l-er]
- a person or thing that pulls wires.
- a person who uses secret means to direct and control the actions of others, especially for selfish ends; intriguer.
- snake(def 3b).
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Origin of wirepuller
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"When I made the engagement, I did not know that you had become a wire-puller," he wrote briefly, in making his excuse.
It required all the skill of Bolingbroke, the wire-puller of the Opposition, to induce the two parties to unite in the assault.
A History of England, Period III.Rev. J. Franck Bright
The ballot alone effectively liberates the quiet citizen from the tyranny of the shouter and the wire-puller.
LiberalismL. T. Hobhouse
Francis Place was the wire-puller, to whose energy was due the abolition of the Conspiracy Laws in 1824.
The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3)Leslie Stephen
"It was very astute of me, or of the wire-puller above us, to postpone my fit until the very moment you were with me," he said.
AtlantisGerhart Hauptmann
wirepuller
- mainly US and Canadian a person who uses private or secret influence for his own ends
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