play the despot
基本解釋
- 稱王稱霸
英漢例句
- They favored, instead, "containing" Saddam Hussein or, at best, replacing him via a coup with some other despot who would not have Saddam's criminal baggage but would fit in and play well with the Mideast's other authoritarians.
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