お先さき棒ぼう

noun

flunky; cat's-paw; tool

Refers to a person used by someone else to do their bidding, often in a manipulative or subordinate way. Commonly appears in the phrase お先棒を担ぐ (to act as someone's cat's-paw).

See also: お先棒を担ぐ

• 彼かれは上じょう司しのお先さき棒ぼうを担かついで、嫌いやな仕し事ごとを押おし付つけられた。

  He was made to act as his boss's cat's-paw and was stuck with unpleasant work.

• あの男おとこはただのお先さき棒ぼうに過すぎない。

  That man is nothing more than a tool.