Charlie McCarthy
English
Etymology
After Charlie McCarthy, the dummy of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen.
Noun
- (dated) A person under the control of another; a puppet or mouthpiece.
- 1999, Department of Arkansas Heritage, Outside the Pale: The Architecture of Fay Jones (page 12)
- For the next thirty minutes, I was kind of a prop, his Charlie McCarthy, as he explained some of the things about the building.
- 2008, Byron Williams, Strip Mall Patriotism: Moral Reflections on the Iraq War, page 127:
- The president has perfected his role as politics' answer to ventriloquist Edgar Bergen—using the Democrats as his Charlie McCarthy.
- 1999, Department of Arkansas Heritage, Outside the Pale: The Architecture of Fay Jones (page 12)
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