Dogsbody

//ˈdɔɡz.bɑ.di//

"Dogsbody" in a Sentence (7 examples)

Sometimes an intern is just a dogsbody.

Tom is their dogsbody.

Who chose this face for me? This dogsbody to rid of vermin.

'Cause I, I wanna be anarchy! / No dogsbody!

That's just Baldrick, my dogsbody.

Furthermore, there are still rather backward opinions in our society about the role of a translator. A translator is often regarded as a linguistic dogsbody.

Perhaps because, having been brought up in all those different countries and languages, and then studying economics of all things for just a year, followed by four years dogsbodying for a haulage company, he had never got any serious reading done.

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