jobs for the boys

Meaning

1. people use the expression jobs for the boys when they are criticizing the fact that sb in power has given work to friends or relatives

In the movies · 6

• but you've done such a great job with these boys...Coach Carter2005
• We both transferred out, took jobs with Boys' Correctional.The Green Mile1999
• MAN 2: Nice job, boys!422013
• She was a maid at the hotel, but now her only job was raising our two boys.The Butler2013
• Our job, mine and the boys, is to see that you get some civilization in you...Take the Money and Run1969

From the same entry

• do the job
• do a good, bad, job
• give up as a bad job
• good job
• a good job
• have a job doing do
• a job of work
• just the job
• more than your job's worth
• on the job
• make the best of
• a devil of a job