Translations for „jobsworth“ in the English » German Dictionary

ˈjobs·worth N Brit inf

jobsworth

Aktenschieber(in) m (f) FRG pej

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English

Frankly, that's a rather unwarranted on children, who would obviously have more common sense than that little jobsworth.

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So now one of the little joys in life has been taken away from some feeble jobsworth with a clipboard.

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Very average players bossed by a jobsworth manager.

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Ex-back-office staff -- the non-trading employees -- who make the leap to trader can be taunted with slang terms like "jub", for junior jobsworth.

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That would give even the slowest-witted council jobsworth ample time to apprehend them and return them to captivity.

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But this is primarily a book about cycling, an insight into the need to excel that drives sportsmen and women and makes them different from the nine-to-five jobsworth.

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Strange how the police have time to pander to the ravings of a single jobsworth but tell us they can't respond to real criminal incidents.

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It sounds like there is a bit of jobsworth going on.

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It's the product of the jobsworth mentality.

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The police lawyer, a jobsworth who cares nothing about solving crimes but everything about appearances, has seemed dodgy since her debut in the current series.

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