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Wire-pulling   Listen
noun
Wire-pulling  n.  The act of pulling the wires, as of a puppet; hence, secret influence or management, especially in politics; intrigue.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Wire-pulling" Quotes from Famous Books



... early June there must have been five thousand eager young warriors, under such leaders as Crazy Horse, Gall, Little Big Man, and all manner of Wolves, Bears, and Bulls, and prominent among the later that head-devil, scheming, lying, wire-pulling, big-talker-but-no-fighter, Sitting Bull,—"Tatanka-e-Yotanka",—five thousand fierce and eager Indians, young and old, swarming through the glorious upland between the Big Horn and the Yellowstone, and ...
— Starlight Ranch - and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier • Charles King



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