The messenger was necessary, a useful idiot if you like.
You would still be considered no more than a useful idiot.
Now all you useful idiots are trying to push us into a war against a nation that poses no threat to us.
Against such a project, Napoleon was the dangerous but useful idiot of the oligarchs".
In the bird's-eye view of things, I am the useful idiot who brings food.
"I'm what they call a useful idiot," she said with a laugh.
Richard Murphy is very much what the Soviets call a "useful idiot".
But Tierlaw could have been set up, a useful idiot.
Because he is a useful idiot in the grander scheme of the leftist agenda.
What we have here is a paid up member of Putins heavies, or a useful idiot.