The expression meant that the person who cannot hold a candle to you is not fit even to be your servant.

VOA: special.2011.05.29

Lena Horne later wrote that the movie producers did not make her into a servant, but they did not make her into anything else either.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

Her deal with MGM stated that she would never play the role of a servant.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

Cazeau expressed his worries to his servant, Flicit,who served him dinner.

VOA: special.2009.06.27

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair,who oversaw the Good Friday negotiations, says Kennedy was a "true public servant committed to the values of fairness and opportunity."

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

In Moscow, civil servant Yuri Traftov says Ukrainians need not worry.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01