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sent a boy to do a man's job

sent a boy to do a man's job is the simple past and past participle of send a boy to do a man's job.

Meaning of send a boy to do a man's job

Verb

send a boy to do a man's job (third-person singular simple present sends a boy to do a man's job, present participle sending a boy to do a man's job, simple past and past participle sent a boy to do a man's job)

  1. To send an inexperienced person to do something they are not qualified for.
    • “Guess it was too much to expect a bunch of corporate-payroll little girls to do a woman’s job.”[2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 4, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 76

Questions about sent a boy to do a man's job

What is sent a boy to do a man's job the simple past and past participle of?
Sent a boy to do a man's job is the simple past and past participle of send a boy to do a man's job.

Words near sent a boy to do a man's job in the dictionary

  1. sensuousness
  2. sensuousnesses
  3. sensurround
  4. sensy
  5. sent
  6. sent a boy to do a man's job
  7. sent a message
  8. sent a shiver down someone's spine
  9. sent about one's business
  10. sent around
  11. sent away

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