jack-in-office
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jack-in-office (複數 jacks-in-office)
- (貶義) 打官腔的官吏，狐假虎威的官員
- Template:RQ:Corelli Sorrows of Satan
- 1967, C. P. Snow, foreword to A Mathematician's Apology, G. H. Hardy, 1948.
- Chapel at Trinity was compulsory. Hardy told the Dean, [...], that he could not conscientiously attend. The Dean, who must have been a jack-in-office, insisted that Hardy should write to his parents and tell them so.