Sentence examples for Old boy network from inspiring English sources

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Old boy network

noun

A presumed unacknowledged system of association between childhood friends (especially those at school or university together), used for mutual assistance or favouritism.

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The old boy network writ large.

But construction is still a good old boy network.

"The old boy network is very strong in small countries," Mr. Svetlicic said.

What was once the old boy network became the old school network.

He thinks the old boy network is still very much evidence in the land of television.

He is expected to call time on "rewards for failure" and the "old boy network" operating on remuneration committees.

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There's still an old-boy network.

The old-boy network does work.

The old-boy network works like that.

McKinsey's old-boy network is the envy of all.

"It's like the old-boy network," she said.

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