jack-in-office

短语

词形变化

jacks-in-office 复数 jacks-in-office

别名

jack in office

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A self-important but minor official.

    贬义

    1927, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados Mysteries For ordinary purposes I generally describe myself as a rent-collector, but that is because official Jacks-in-office seem to have a morbid suspicion of anyone who is obviously not a millionaire calling himself independent.

    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.