jack-in-office

英語

替代寫法

• jack in office

名詞

jack-in-office (複數 jacks-in-office)

1. (貶義) 打官腔的官吏，狐假虎威的官員
   • Template:RQ:Corelli Sorrows of Satan
   • 1967, C. P. Snow, foreword to A Mathematician's Apology, G. H. Hardy, 1948.

     Chapel at Trinity was compulsory. Hardy told the Dean, [...], that he could not conscientiously attend. The Dean, who must have been a jack-in-office, insisted that Hardy should write to his parents and tell them so.

同義詞

• jack guardant (古舊), petty functionary

上位語

• bureaucrat, official，參見：Thesaurus:bureaucrat