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lapdog

a pet dog small and docile enough to be cuddled in the lap
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'They say 99.9 accurate, c' mon PPCRV, you're supposed to be the watchdog, not a lapdog. Palagi na lang kayong perfect election.
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But even a lapdog press corps is apt to start growling when it has been leashed to lies too many times.
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Sgt Jones's father Ray, a 62-year-old steel cutter, has angrily attacked the conflict in Iraq and accused Mr Blair of being George Bush's "lapdog".
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For example, those of us who are proud to consider ourselves "feisty" should be aware our behavior is being compared to a manic and belligerent lapdog.
Casual lex; an informal assemblage of why we say what we say
At least since the early 1990s, the FDA has been stuck on a seesaw, alternately criticized as either a bureaucratic obstacle to industry, or the lapdog of industry--too slow in getting desperately needed drugs to the public, or too fast in rushing dangerous drugs onto pharmacy shelves.
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Derzhavina, tiny lapdog on her arm, gestures proudly to a magnificent estate standing in the distance across a lush green landscape.
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It should have come as no surprise that the rat's DNA had "changed much more than the human genome had since the two species diverged from a common ancestor" ("Devil's Lapdog Gets Its Due: The lab rat bares its DNA to biologists," SN: 4/3/04, p.
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After decades as a presidential lapdog, the Congress has asserted itself.
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