dogcatcher
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8.2
- noun
- /ˈdɔɡˌkæʧər/
- Offensive
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- If you can't manage to win over the locals, you might as well aim for dogcatcher, as that's about your level.
- get elected dogcatcher
- run for dogcatcher
Examples
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To take you literally on your joke about running for office: it was said, after Watergate, that Nixon couldn't be elected dogcatcher.
Blog text (14) -
Would you vote for someone for dogcatcher who is fundamentally opposed to the very idea of animal control?
Blog text (21) -
"She couldn't get elected dogcatcher."
Blog text (31) -
Once that hit the headlines your daddy couldn't get elected dogcatcher, right?
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Are you secretly planning to run for state representative, auditor, or dogcatcher or something?
Fiction book (2000) -
By the logic in the last paragraph, anyone holding any public position—Dogcatcher, for instance—should be grilled about any issue that may come across the desk of the President of the United States, regardless of their qualifications for the position they actually seek.
Blog text (4) -
The town council dismissed his complaints, suggesting he was just a frustrated dogcatcher with no real influence.
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Running for dogcatcher may not seem important, but it can be a stepping stone to bigger political aspirations.
Synonyms
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9.2
A person or group with low rank who usually loses in competition
A person seen as not important who follows orders
A person who gets a job because of connections rather than skill
Idioms
- Informal
Fail to win even a small local job because few people vote for you
How Important
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dogcatcher is also used to mean a low or unimportant public official; imagine the street job of catching stray dogs, which people see as having little status, so calling someone a dogcatcher suggests they have little power or importance.