be sb's poodle
UK humorous disapprovingDefinition
› to be too willing to support or be controlled by someone in authority: They accused the Labour party of being the unions' poodle.Weakness and vulnerability
(Definition of be sb's poodle from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- Achilles heel noun
- at a low ebb idiom
- be (only) flesh and blood idiom
- chink in sb's armour idiom
- debility noun
- faint adjective (SLIGHT)
- frailty noun
- impotent adjective (LACKING POWER)
- indefensible adjective
- lax adjective
- man of straw noun (WEAK)
- mercy noun (KINDNESS)
- susceptibility noun
- susceptible adjective (INFLUENCED)
- toothless adjective (NO POWER)
- underbelly noun
- unprotected adjective
- unsteady adjective
- vulnerable adjective
- wraith noun
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