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running dog

noun

  1. Disparaging. (especially in Chinese Communist propaganda)
    1. a person or institution subservient to counterrevolutionary interests.
    2. a manipulable, servile follower; lackey:

      to be reviled as a running dog of the colonialists.

  2. Architecture. Vitruvian scroll.


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Origin of running dog1

1925–30; in political sense, translation of Chinese ǒܲǒ
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House Speaker and Trump running dog Mike Johnson congratulated the "America First patriot" Patel for his nomination on X.

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Mr. Inamori once lived in the factory during a workers’ strike — being denounced by unions as “a running dog for capitalism” — to finish a project that he felt was critical for the company’s survival.

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The risk for Britain, Mr. Powell said, is that it is viewed in other European capitals as merely a “running dog for the Americans.”

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China’s state-run Global Times described the United States as “losing its mind trying to rally its allies against China” and accused Australia of becoming a “running dog” of Washington.

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On Twitter, China’s consul general in Rio de Janeiro recently posted a photo of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, calling him “boy” and “spendthrift!!!” and accusing him of turning Canada into a “running dog of the U.S.”

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