send a boy to do a man's job

English

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.
   • [2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 4, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation‎^[1], 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 76:

     “Guess it was too much to expect a bunch of corporate-payroll little girls to do a woman’s job.”]