catbird seat

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catbird seat 的定义

n. 名词 noun

Informal.

  1. an advantageous situation or condition: His appointment as acting dean put him in the catbird seat.

catbird seat 近义词

n. 名词 noun

position of great advantage

更多catbird seat例句

  1. A cynic might suggest that McConnell is sitting in the catbird seat now.
  2. They want to change bad behaviors—tobacco, alcohol, using a seat belt, anything.
  3. On the Democratic side, many expect former Rep. Mike McMahon to make another run at the seat.
  4. Interestingly, if Grimm is expelled, he is not legally prohibited from running in the special election for his seat.
  5. This means every Senate seat will be Republican, and 80 percent of the House seats will be, too.
  6. There, he allegedly pulled her into the back seat of his black Pontiac.
  7. Aristide replaced the baby, and with a complicated arrangement of string fastened it securely to the seat.
  8. Pierre Van Cortlandt, a distinguished revolutionary patriot, died at his seat at Croton river, aged 94.
  9. Aristide clambered back to his seat, took the child on his knees, and commiserated it profoundly.
  10. He deposited it on the vacant seat, clambered up behind the wheel, and started.
  11. De Castellor was now in his seat; and when Castanos came off; the Duke was stunned into stupor, overcome by the illimitable ruin.