baby-kisser

baby-kisser

A politician (due to their reputation for schmoozing with the public). You know you can't trust a baby-kisser—once they're voted into office, they don't follow through on any of their promises.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

baby-kisser

n. a politician. There were lots of promises at the town square today when four local baby-kissers tried to rally interest in the upcoming election.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • the/(one's) kisser
  • kisser
  • right in the kisser
  • ain’t 1
  • don't know from Adam
  • beat the
  • licker
  • Keep the faith!
  • knock (something)
References in periodicals archive
Instead, we have former baby-kisser Mawhinney, who seems more inclined to set up back-patting surveys and boozy award evenings than safeguarding clubs.
Letter: YOUR VIEWS - Don't execute us, Mawhinney; WREXHAM
This has to be seized or it will drown, both disappointing the British people and condemning them to yet another generation of baby-kissers and acrobats.
Reader's letter: Time to lift the clouds of double talk
Let us conjecture, say, that New Labour had never been born, that men and women who spoke from their hearts hadn't been sidelined or swayed and deceived from their beliefs either by New Labour's cooings or their own traditions, that 'slide-rule' politics and a new generation of baby-kissers had never come to being, that Labour had held on to and developed its historical principles in fighting the '97 election, but shedding its old constituency about class.
Letter: Unhappy worm has turned