ruler : Idioms & Phrases


Home ruler

  • one who favors or advocates home rule.
Webster 1913

Parallel ruler

  • an instrument for drawing parallel lines, so constructed as to have the successive positions of the ruling edge parallel to each other; also, one consisting of two movable parts, the opposite edges of which are always parallel.
Webster 1913

puppet ruler

  • noun a leader or ruler who is chosen by a despot to head a government
    puppet leader.
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