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jobs for the boys

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jobs for the boys  (British & Australian)
work that is given by someone who is in an important position to their friends or members of their family They operated a system of jobs for the boys.
See also: boy, Jobs
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The whole thing is a waste of money, they just dream up jobs for the boys.
High-speed link to Teesside 'is by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
If things stand as they are, critics will soon be queuing to bash the council and to launch accusations of croneyism, of unfair dealings, of favouritism, of jobs for the boys, of keeping it in the family.
When one candidate is not enough by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
It's jobs for the boys, nepotism at its most blatant.
EMPIRE OF THE SONS; EXCLUSIVE Council in jobs for the boys row by Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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