A person used by another to gain an end.
1I think him more likely to be a cat's-paw than a felon.
2You'll use me as a cat's-paw to pull down this inconvenient duke.
3He had made a cat's-paw of her, that's what he had done!
4The British had used Belgium as a cat's-paw; then they had deserted her.
5I knew that I had been cat's-paw in some game of high stakes.
6He was not the man to be made a cat's-paw of.
7It was perfectly still, a warm summer night without a cat's-paw of breeze.
8I have not ever heard she gave a thought to me, her cat's-paw.
9Brad had no intention of being a cat's-paw for him.
10She was not going to be made a cat's-paw of.
11But Pet was too sharp to play cat's-paw for nothing.
12His way is generally using someone else for a cat's-paw.
13The cat's-paw theory offered no safer clue, than the frank, old-fashioned, honest theory of villainy.
14Well, rather that than be your cat's-paw longer, Mr.
15And you did me the honor to select me as cat's-paw to bring him on again.
16You've made me the cat's-paw for you, Dresden.
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