Meaning of Wirepuller | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person who exercises an influence on others that is felt but not seen.
   idiomatic, informal
2. Someone from Warrington.
3. Synonym of snake (“tool for pulling cables”).

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Examples

“'Filled with old doddering peers, cute financial magnates, clever wirepullers, big brewers with bulbous noses. All the enemies of progress are there — weaklings, sleek, slug, comfortable, self-important individuals.”

“[…] there lies, alas, the tragedy of the millions of lives immolated by the ignorant peoples as the price paid for the deception practised upon them by the Imperialistic wirepullers.”

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