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tinpot dictators

n. (tinpot dictator English)

Usage examples of "tinpot dictators".

Eventually the forty-nine states became little more than a vast plantation whose people worked overtime to feed a hungry world, an arms factory to supply the tinpot dictators who used American weapons mainly against their own people, and a bank to finance the extravagances of foreign tyrants who ruled the masses.

I told you that Dolan's cars were built to the sorts of specifications required by tinpot dictators and despotic military leaders.

The FO might get sweaty hands thinking about half-a-dozen British subjects being recruited for tinpot dictators we all have to be nice to, and even give money to, because they happen to be black or brown.

In addition, Summers suggested, the Jaunt had been used by various tinpot dictators to get rid of political dissidents and political adversaries.