He was, after all, just a hash-pusher, supplying wherever there was a demand: a minor cog in the consumerist machine; he had nothing to feel guilty about.

The walls are getting covered with impressive pictures and I already feel quite a minor cog in the works.

Neckties, as a minor cog, serve as a beginning in respect of pupils demands.

Just a clerk, a minor cog in the great wheel.

Just a minor cog in the great machinery of a big corporation.

"Such a minor cog in the wheel," Hradec explained.

To village youths, whether they were acting as minor cogs of a cattle relay team or stealing a disliked neighbour's bullock, it provided both adventure and a small additional income.

Eichmann's Jewish Office of the Gestapo - B-4 - is at the bottom, consistent with his claim to have been a minor cog in the genocidal machine.

Why should they send a senior vice president to check out what must be, if you'll pardon the description, a minor cog in such a huge enterprise?

At about this same time two minor cogs of TPI's vast machine sat blissfully, arms around each other, on a rustic seat improvised from rocks, branches, and leaves.