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Example sentences for: patsies

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If I were running the moribund Hard Rock Cafe, here's what I'd want to observe about Chinese life: restaurants + oppression = potential theme restaurants, and a magnet for investments from the usual crowd of Hollywood patsies.
Poor Mexican street fighters are brought to the United States by unscrupulous promoters to serve as patsies for American boxers.
What was Soviet Central Asia is now a free-fire zone: Drug, mineral, and arms barons compete for power, while legitimate governments of the region are patsies by comparison.