errand boy
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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When the Nazis came that night, she recognized one of them as a former errand boy of the business.
From Scientific American • Sep. 28, 2023
The judge said that while Treanor has been described as "an errand boy", it was euphemism that "doesn't sit well with the gravity of the offence".
From BBC • Jan. 31, 2023
He was soon “recruited as a teenaged errand boy of British Intelligence,” he wrote in his 2016 memoir, “The Pigeon Tunnel.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2020
A first-year New York film student meets a Godfather look-alike and becomes his errand boy.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2020
I’m big as a linebacker, and a seven-year-old girl treats me like her errand boy.
From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko
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