lapdog

• n. 供玩赏用的小狗

lap,大腿，dog,狗。

lapdog (n.)

also lap-dog, 1640s, from lap (n.) + dog (n.); figurative sense of "subservient person" is by 1950.

Senator McCarthy (R-Wis) renewed his Communists-in-Government charges today and called Senator Tydings (D-Md) the Truman administration's "whimpering lap dog." [AP news story, Aug. 7, 1950]

1. A MAN had an Ass Maltese Lapdog, a very great beauty.

主人有一头驴子, 整日关在栏里吃草.

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2. Blair said he had learned to live with taunts of being Bush's " poodle " or " lapdog. "

布莱尔说,他已经习惯了别人嘲笑自己为布什的 “ 哈巴狗 ”.

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