- 看过 catbird seat 的人也看了 :
- high place
- throne
catbird seat 的定义
Informal.
- an advantageous situation or condition: His appointment as acting dean put him in the catbird seat.
catbird seat 近义词
position of great advantage
更多catbird seat例句
- A cynic might suggest that McConnell is sitting in the catbird seat now.
- They want to change bad behaviors—tobacco, alcohol, using a seat belt, anything.
- On the Democratic side, many expect former Rep. Mike McMahon to make another run at the seat.
- Interestingly, if Grimm is expelled, he is not legally prohibited from running in the special election for his seat.
- This means every Senate seat will be Republican, and 80 percent of the House seats will be, too.
- There, he allegedly pulled her into the back seat of his black Pontiac.
- Aristide replaced the baby, and with a complicated arrangement of string fastened it securely to the seat.
- Pierre Van Cortlandt, a distinguished revolutionary patriot, died at his seat at Croton river, aged 94.
- Aristide clambered back to his seat, took the child on his knees, and commiserated it profoundly.
- He deposited it on the vacant seat, clambered up behind the wheel, and started.
- De Castellor was now in his seat; and when Castanos came off; the Duke was stunned into stupor, overcome by the illimitable ruin.