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Slave driver   /sleɪv drˈaɪvər/   Listen
Slave driver

noun
1.
A cruel employer who demands excessive work from the employees.  Synonym: Simon Legree.
2.
A supervisor of slaves at work.






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"Slave driver" Quotes from Famous Books



... pull yourself together. Tell me what you know—tell me this instant! Well? Sit there in that chair. Now!" She pressed the shoulders she still held with the gesture of an Arab slave driver. "Now, quick! Who is she? What do you ...
— Nell, of Shorne Mills - or, One Heart's Burden • Charles Garvice

... "The slave driver weeps for lack of help and the pay is high. You will be welcome. When the sun makes its shortest shadow tomorrow you will ...
— Blacksheep! Blacksheep! • Meredith Nicholson

... philanthropic labors in America. Let them travel among the starveling English operatives, who would gladly accept slavery if assured of a peck of corn each week; let them wander among European serfs, whose life, labor, and virtue are the sport of despots, compared to whom the crudest slave driver is an angel—and there proclaim their 'holy alliance.' If the victims of English and Continental tyranny do not turn their backs, disgusted with the foul connection, their degradation must be infinitely greater ...
— The American Prejudice Against Color - An Authentic Narrative, Showing How Easily The Nation Got - Into An Uproar. • William G. Allen

... cheerful enough. And just to prove I ain't any slave driver I sort of eggs Miss Casey on, from then until the noon hour, to chat away about this war romance of hers. Seems Mr. Mears could have been in Class B, on account of his widowed mother and him being a plumber's helper when he had time to spare from his pool practicin'. Livin' in ...
— Torchy and Vee • Sewell Ford



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