dogsbody

• “One of his first hires when he entered the Senate in 1977 was the equivalent of a parliamentary private secretary — a "dogsbody," in British parlance — whose task was to scour the press every day and then draft notes to anyone and everyone who might appropriately receive a comment or observation from a newly installed U. S senator who hoped to remain one for a long time.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Born Controversialist

• “Carl becomes a kind of dogsbody for the station staff, doing their bidding and absorbing their wisdom.”

  Marshall Fine: Huff Post Review: Pirate Radio plays the hits - and misses

• “In the early part of the 20th century, "dogsbody" came to mean the guy who gets the crap jobs.”

  Archive 2005-05-01

• “I became a messenger, or I had a job called "desk assistant," which basically meant dogsbody at ABC News.”

  Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden

• “I am a combination of researcher, secretary, office girl, tea maker and general dogsbody.”

  Death of a Scriptwriter

• “He chafed with annoyance at being treated as a dogsbody by the older apprentices, loathed their loose conversation, and felt he was learning nothing.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'The Making of Mr. Gray's Anatomy: Books, Bodies, Fortune, Fame'

• “I wouldn't have missed it for the world, of course; I sorta felt I owed a bit of elbow grease given the work put in by the crew, and in truth it was kinda wonderful being a dogsbody rather than ...”

  Adventures of a Couch-Hopping Scribbler Part 2: That Toddlin Town

• “I listened in vain for the urgent clatter of typewriters but all I got was cynical hard-bitten hacks hurling sexist abuse at the paper's lowly but idealistic dogsbody who, naturally, was the only one asking the right questions.”

  The Guardian: Rewind TV: Page Eight; The Conspiracy Files: 9/11 Ten Years On; The Field of Blood

• “International best-seller John Connolly has variously worked as a journalist, barman, local government official, waiter and a dogsbody at Harrods department store in London.”

  Jonathan Maberry Interviews International Best-seller, John Connolly

• “The young dogsbody of the shop, the gullible and neglected Seymour, ends up cultivating a bizarre plant that only grows when he feeds it blood.”

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