yes man

yes man

See also: yesman and yes-man

English

Alternative forms

• yes-man, yesman

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Noun

yes man (plural yes men)

1. (idiomatic) A person who always agrees with their employer or superior.
   • 1868, New Zealand Parliament, Parliamentary debates, volume 55, page 2437:

     The function of a Vice-President is the job of a yes-man, as they call it in America.

   • 2003, Evan Thomas, "The 12 Year Itch," Newsweek, 21 Mar.:

     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."

   Synonyms: brown noser, yeasayer (alternatively yea-sayer), Uriah Heep

Derived terms

• yesmanism
• yesmanship

 

Translations

a person who always agrees with his employer or superior

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: إِمَّعَة‎ (ʾimmaʿa) 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: please add this translation if you can 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 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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