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spin doctor
noun
- Slang. a press agent skilled at spin control.
spin doctor
noun
- informal.a person who provides a favourable slant to an item of news, potentially unpopular policy, etc, esp on behalf of a political personality or party
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of spin doctor1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of spin doctor1
Idioms and Phrases
An individual charged with getting others to interpret a statement or event from a particular viewpoint, as in Charlie is the governor's spin doctor . This term, born about 1980 along with spin control , uses doctor in the colloquial sense of “one who repairs something.”Example Sentences
Fixing, schmoozing and scheming behind the scenes, the spin doctor who seemed to revel in his nickname the "Prince of Darkness".
Shugalei tends to describe himself as a "sociologist" but in reality, say analysts, he is a spin doctor and an agent of Russian influence known for his work on the African continent.
Years ago, a spin doctor at a Welsh Labour conference told me how party members were going to help write policies.
Overcoming public resistance might be required first, so Camilla confers with a spin doctor, while divorce lawyers and a prime minister endeavor to end the very public “War of the Waleses.”
The party's former spin doctor recently attacked the investigation as a "grotesque spectacle".
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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