an important or influential (and often overbearing) person
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用作名词 (n.)
Mr Emanuel is famous for being the president's most pugnacious panjandrum and congressional and media manipulator, and proud of it to boot. 伊曼纽尔显示素以最为好斗的总统幕僚、国会及媒体操纵者而闻名,且其本人还引以为豪。
经典引文
The panjandrums may next advise local citizens to stop drinking water.
出自:Washington Post
R. V. Jones, the great panjandrum of the arcana of scientific intelligence.