faceless man

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Coined by Australian journalist Alan Reid in 1963 in The Daily Telegraph.

Noun[edit]

faceless man (plural faceless men)

  1. (Australian politics, informal) Someone who is not elected to political office, but exerts power over political affairs from behind the scenes.

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