never send a boy to do a man’s job
- 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. CHANSLOR’ Our Second Murder xxviii. Never send a boy to do a man’s work.
1967 E. MCGIRR Hearse with Horses vi. He blushed. Piron thought that he shouldn’t have sent a boy to do a man’s job.
1987 Washington Post 21 Jan. D10 Research proves that in more than 99 percent of these cases, the defender who has overruffed endears himself by uttering the old cliche, ‘Never send a boy to do a man’s job.’
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