messenger boy

collocation in English

meaningsofmessengerandboy

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messenger
noun[C]
uk
/ˈmes.ɪn.dʒər/us
/ˈmes.ɪn.dʒɚ/
someone who takes a message or documents from one person ...
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boy
noun[C]
uk
/bɔɪ/us
/bɔɪ/
a male child or, more generally, a male of ...
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(Definition ofmessengerandboyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmessenger boy

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It would be hardly even that of amessengerboy.
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It does not mean a man who runs with a message in the way that amessengerboydoes.
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Should we not know who was giving him his instructions, and for whom he was acting merely as amessengerboy?
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He is reduced to the status of amessengerboy.
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In the same way the late chief engineer started as a telegraphmessengerboy.
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It means something more than amessengerboy.
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I am not amessengerboyfor my constituents.
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He will be, in principle, little more than amessengerboyor at best a listening post with limited powers.
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Though again, it was a small post as amessengerboy.
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In the meantime, he worked a variety of jobs which included being a waiter, dishwasher, day laborer, andmessengerboy.
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He began earning his living at the age of thirteen, being amessengerboy, printer's devil, assistant in an electrical store and a lift boy.
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His first job was as amessengerboy, and it was then that he discovered that it was important to be able to read.
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He was employed as amessengerboyfor a law firm.
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He began as amessengerboyfor the telegraph department.
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Jimmy decides to be amessengerboy, and soon drags his pals into the job.
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The lowliest foreigners coming to this country became first-class gentlemen and messenger boys would turn into ambassadors.
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Jimmy is given a choice to either go to reform school or work as amessengerboyfor the post office as punishment.
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Ziereis spent 8 years in elementary school and then began as an apprentice andmessengerboyin a department store.
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We are becoming the messenger boys between elected members and the new local authorities.
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Unfortunately, like most messenger boys, he does not understand the message that he is conveying.
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