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Noun
yes man plural yes men
( idiomatic ) always agrees with their employer or superior .
1868 Parliamentary debates , volume 55 , numbers 13-25 , 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 yeasayer yea-sayer Uriah Heep
Translations
a person who always agrees with his employer or superior
Arabic: إِمَّعَة ( ʔimmaʕa )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 好好先生 (zh) ( hǎohǎo xiānshēng ) ("Mister Yes-Yes"), 跟屁蟲 ／ 跟屁虫 (zh) ( gēnpìchóng ) , 跟屁虫 (zh) ( gēn pì chóng ) ("fart following insect") , 應聲蟲 ／ 应声虫 (zh) ( yìngshēngchóng ) , 应声虫 (zh) ( yìngshēng chóng ) ("responding insect")
Czech: poskok (cs) m
Danish: jasiger (da) c
Dutch: jaknikker (nl) m jabroer (nl) m
Finnish: jees-mies
French: béni-oui-oui (fr) m
German: Jasager (de) m
Hungarian: fejbólintó János
Italian: yes man m
Japanese: イエスマン ( iesuman )
Korean: 아첨군 ( acheomgun )
Latin: assentātor m
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: климогла́вец m ( klimoglávec ) , ами́нџија m ( amíndžija )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nikkedukke (no) m or f spyttslikker (no) m ( spilt-licker )
Polish: potakiwacz (pl) m
Portuguese: lambe-botas (pt) m puxa-saco (pt) m
Russian: сикофа́нт (ru) m ( sikofánt ) , подхали́м (ru) m ( podxalím ) , лизоблю́д (ru) m ( lizobljúd ) , подпева́ла (ru) m or f ( podpevála )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: по̀слӯшнӣк m
Roman: pòslūšnīk (sh) m
Spanish: sacristán de amén
Swedish: ja-sägare (sv) c
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
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