Meaning: Someone who agrees with everything their leader says or does.
Examples:
Good leaders don’t surround themselves with a bunch of yes men.
I’m not a yes man – I’ll always tell you my real opinion.
You don’t really want advice, you just want a yes man!
Pop Quiz:
A yes man is…
A. good.
B. bad.
C. neither good nor bad.
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The correct answer is B. The idiom yes man is always used in a negative way: it’s used to describe people who work for a powerful person who are afraid to give their true opinions about something because they don’t want to be punished or lose their jobs.