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rubber stamp. People have been making rubber stamps since the 19th century, but the first recorded use of the term figura- tively to describe someone who approves things automatically and uncritically, a yes-man, dates back to a 1919 description of former president William Howard Taft by author William R. Thayer: “He may have heard the exhortation, ‘Be your own President; don’t be anybody’s man or rubber stamp.’ ” The way Thayer uses the phrase suggests that it was current at least 30 or so years before. |