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Noun
yes man (plural yes men)
- (idiomatic) A person who always agrees with their employer or superior.
- Synonyms: brown noser, yeasayer (alternatively yea-sayer), Uriah Heep
1868, New Zealand Parliament, Parliamentary debates, volume 55, numbers 13-25, page 2437:The function of a Vice-President is the job of a yes-man, as they call it in America.
2003 March 21, Evan Thomas, “The 12 Year Itch”, in Newsweek:Rice is a "yes man," says one former top government official. "She thinks her job is just to figure out what the president is trying to say and then to say it more articulately."
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a person who always agrees with his employer or superior
- Afrikaans: jabroer
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: إِمَّعَة (ʔimmaʕa)
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Burmese: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: please add this translation if you can
- Mandarin: 好好先生 (zh) (hǎohǎo xiānshēng, literally “mister yes-yes”), 跟屁蟲／跟屁虫 (zh) (gēn pì chóng), 應聲蟲／应声虫 (zh) (yìngshēng chóng)
- Czech: poskok (cs) m
- Danish: jasiger (da) c
- Dutch: jaknikker (nl) m, jabroer (nl) m
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: jees-mies
- French: béni-oui-oui (fr) m
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Jasager (de) m
- Greek: please add this translation if you can
- Hebrew: יסמן m (yésmen)
- Hindi: चमचा (hi) m (camcā)
- Hungarian: fejbólintó János
- Italian: yes man m
- Japanese: イエスマン (iesuman)
- Khmer: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 아첨군 (acheomgun)
- Latin: assentātor m
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: климогла́вец m (klimoglávec), ами́нџија m (amíndžija)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: nikkedukke (no) m or f, spyttslikker (no) m (spilt-licker)
- Persian: بلهقربانگو (bale-qorbân-gu)
- Plautdietsch: Jo-brooda m
- Polish: potakiwacz (pl) m
- Portuguese: lambe-botas (pt) m, puxa-saco (pt) m
- Romanian: please add this translation if you can
- Russian: сикофа́нт (ru) m (sikofánt), подхали́м (ru) m (podxalím), лизоблю́д (ru) m (lizobljúd), подпева́ла (ru) m or f (podpevála)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: по̀слӯшнӣк m
- Roman: pòslūšnīk (sh) m
- Slovak: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: sacristán de amén
- Swedish: ja-sägare (sv) c, nickedocka c
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: evet efendimci (tr)
- Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
- Yiddish: אָמן־זאָגער m (omen-zoger, literally “amen-sayer”)
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