faceless man

English

Etymology

Coined by Australian journalist Alan Reid in 1963 in The Daily Telegraph.

Noun

faceless man (plural faceless men)

  1. (Australian politics, informal) Someone who is not elected to political office, but exerts power over political affairs from behind the scenes.

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