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Meanings of spear carrier in anglès

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A minor actor in crowd scenes.

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Usage of spear carrier in anglès
1
The PM supported it, but was just another spear carrier in the free vote.
News.com.au
2
And Jimmy didn't see the policeman as a spear carrier.
Rite of Passage
3
Vixa traded a few blows with a spear carrier.
The Dargonesti (Elves of the Sea)
4
Then the policeman suddenly found himself demoted from hero to spear carrier and his story finished.
Rite of Passage
5
The spear carrier came within range and tossed them three ration packets from the glider's stores.
Seveneves
6
The universe is filled with people, and there is not a single solitary spear carrier among them.
Rite of Passage
7
I've always wondered what it would be like to be a spear carrier in somebody else's story.
Rite of Passage
8
I admit that the man was still a spear carrier to me, but nonetheless both deaths bothered me.
Rite of Passage
9
A spear carrier is a character put in a story to be used like a piece of disposable tissue.
Rite of Passage
10
A spear carrier is somebody who stands in the hail when Caesar passes, comes to attention and thumps his spear.
Rite of Passage
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A spear carrier is the anonymous character cut down by the hero as he advances to save the menaced heroine.
Rite of Passage
12
Mr. Kutsov was a spear carrier to the policeman, a spear carrier who asserted himself at the wrong moment, and then was eliminated.
Rite of Passage
13
More like Brexit extras in the thespian sense, bit-part players, understudies, spear carriers.
The Guardian
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In this spirit, some very prominent people become mere spear carriers within the Bohemian Club.
The Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats
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The trouble is that each of us is his own hero, existing in a world of spear carriers.
Rite of Passage
16
In a story, spear carriers never suddenly assert themselves by throwing their spears aside and saying, I resign.
Rite of Passage
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