yes man

English

Alternative forms

• yes-man

Noun

yes man (plural yes men)

1. (idiomatic) A person who always agrees with his employer or superior.
   • 1868, New Zealand Parliament, Parliamentary debates, volume 55, page 2437:

     The function of a Vice-President is the job of a yes-man, as they call it in America.

   • 2003, Evan Thomas, "The 12 Year Itch," Newsweek, 21 Mar.:

     Rice is a "yes man," says one former top government official. "She thinks her job is just to figure out what the president is trying to say and then to say it more articulately."

Synonyms

• brownnoser
• Uriah Heep

Translations

a person who always agrees with his employer or superior

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 好好先生 (cmn) (hǎohǎo xiānshēng) ("Mister Yes-Yes"), 跟屁蟲 (cmn), 跟屁虫 (cmn) (gēn pì chóng) ("fart following insect"), 應聲蟲 (cmn), 应声虫 (cmn) (yìngshēng chóng) ("responding insect") Czech: poskok (cs) m. Dutch: jabroer (nl) m. Finnish: jees-mies (fi) French: béni-oui-oui (fr) m. German: Jasager (de) m. Hungarian: fejbólintó János (hu) Italian: yes man (it) m.

Japanese: イエスマン (ja) (iesuman) Korean: 아첨군 (ko) (a.cheom.gun) Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: климоглавец (mk) (klimoglávec) m., аминџија (mk) (amíndžija) m. Portuguese: lambe-botas (pt) m., puxa-saco (pt) m. Russian: сикофант (ru) (sikofánt) m., подхалим (ru) (podxalím) m., лизоблюд (ru) (lizobljúd) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: послушник (sh) m. Roman: poslušnik (sh) m. Spanish: sacristán de amén (es) Swedish: jasägare (sv) c. Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• yamens