an important or influential (and often overbearing) person
造句
用作名詞(n.)
Mr Emanuel is famous for being the president\\\'s most pugnacious panjandrum and congressional and media manipulator, and proud of it to boot. 伊曼紐爾顯示素以最為好斗的總統幕僚、國會及媒體操縱者而聞名，且其本人還引以為豪。
常用短語
The panjandrums may next advise local citizens to stop drinking water.
出自：Washington Post
R. V. Jones, the great panjandrum of the arcana of scientific intelligence.