cat's-paw

A person who is used by another to achieve some end, especially in a duplicitous or cynical manner. Taken from a fable about a monkey who uses a cat's paw to retrieve chestnuts from a fire. I thought that Jake really loved me, but in the end, I was just a cat's-paw so he could stir up jealousy in his ex-boyfriend.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Judita	-	Lithuanian, Czech, Slovak
Benesh	-	Yiddish
Abd Al-Malik	-	Arabic
Gil (1)	HEEL (Spanish), ZHEEL (Portuguese)	Spanish, Portuguese
Brynmor	-	Welsh
Margareta	mahr-gah-RE-tah (German), MAHR-gah-re-tah (Finnish)	German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Romanian, Slovene, Dutch, Finnish, Croatian