the mayor and his sidekick
movie heroes invariably have a trusty sidekick, who often provides comic relief
Recent Examples on the WebThe company responded in the late 1960s with a handful of Black dolls that were designed to be Barbie’s sidekick (not the star of the show).—Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 19 June 2024 Okafor and sidekick Ben Gordon led the way, but a loaded roster that included Taliek Brown, Josh Boone, Charlie Villanueva, Rashad Anderson, Denham Brown, and others were a cut above everyone else.—Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 12 Apr. 2024 The genre made history by presenting Black characters who could be the protagonists of their own stories without being relegated to comic-relief, victim, or sidekick parts.—Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024 But in practice, the world was uninterested in being hectored about such abstract principles, and Canada’s relatively small economic and military might meant that the country could never escape its true role as the United States’ sidekick.—Jonathan Kay, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017 See all Example Sentences for sidekick
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