to send a boy to do a man's job

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• never send a boy to do a man’s job — 1931 G. FOWLER Great Mouthpiece xii. Mr. Alfred J. Talley..took command of the..prosecution. He was an able man... ‘It’s about time they gave me a run for the money,’ Fallon said. ‘The People shouldn’t send boys on men’s errands.’ 1941 ‘T.… …   Proverbs new dictionary

• boy — see you can take the boy out of the country but you can’t take the country out of the boy never send a boy to do a man’s job two boys are half a boy, and three boys are no boy at all boys will be boys …   Proverbs new dictionary

• man — see man cannot live by bread alone whatever man has done, man may do a man is as old as he feels, and a woman as old as she looks man is the measure of all things man proposes, God disposes man’s extremity is …   Proverbs new dictionary

• send — see never send a boy to do a man’s job God never sends mouths but He sends meat God sends meat, but the devil sends cooks …   Proverbs new dictionary

• job — see never send a boy to do a man’s job if a thing’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well …   Proverbs new dictionary

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