Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Prov. One who has total authority is very likely to abuse his position. (This phrase was used by the British historian Lord Acton: "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.")
We thought that Johnson would be a responsible mayor, but within a year of taking office, he was as bad as all the rest. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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- a contradiction in terms
- a dead loss
- affiliate (so or sth) with so or sth
- A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
- aim to do sth
- a ladies' man
- alienate
- all my eye (and Betty Martin)
- allude to so or sth
- aloof
- a low profile
- a millstone about one's neck
- A miss is as good as a mile.
- amount to sth
- and that's a fact
- a nut case
- apple
- a price on one's head
- a quick study
- a put-up job
- arch over so or sth
