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MARCH 23, 2017
Throttlebottomnoun [THROT-l-bot-uh m]
1. (sometimes lowercase) a harmless incompetent in public office.
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could be expected to perform it was to represent the president and the
country at funerals of notables abroad.
-- Carl Solberg, Hubert Humphrey: A Biography, 1984 ORIGINThe term
Throttlebottom was formed after the character Alexander Throttlebottom
in the musical comedy Of Thee I Sing (1932).
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