barrow-boy

Sugar is a barrow-boy who has made a few quid, doesn't make him the brightest tool in the box.

Alan Sugar backs Brown? 2008

In true Decemberists fashion, one of the songs is about a barrow-boy named Eli.

December 2004 2004

In true Decemberists fashion, one of the songs is about a barrow-boy named Eli.

Saturday Goodness (almost!) 2004

So, here he was, Sherlock Holmes on his own again with the dubious assistance of an unlikely trio of Irregulars: a cadaverous Pinkerton who ought to be abed, a diminutive Chinese bookseller with a wide knowledge of arcane topics, and a red-headed modern-day barrow-boy trying out for a part in one of Conan Doyle's bits of airy nonsense.

Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

So, here he was, Sherlock Holmes on his own again with the dubious assistance of an unlikely trio of Irregulars: a cadaverous Pinkerton who ought to be abed, a diminutive Chinese bookseller with a wide knowledge of arcane topics, and a red-headed modern-day barrow-boy trying out for a part in one of Conan Doyle's bits of airy nonsense.

Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

He started as a barrow-boy, he had a flair, and with the aid of Bill-Tasman, Senior, he got to the top.

Tied Up in Tinsel Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1972

No one asked me where I came from, which I took as a sign of success, and when I asked the last man, a barrow-boy, where I could catch a bus back to the West,

For Kicks Francis, Dick, 1920- 1965

When I started working on Wall Street it was barrow-boy like with not many mathematicians.

BBC News - Home 2011

"Because I have a Cockney accent I'm perceived as some sort of barrow-boy."

Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk 2009

Explain then why they were sacrificed to the make-believe world of finance, which absorbed many our best graduates, turning them into barrow-boy traders, or designers of financial gambling instruments that inflated the entire planet with unpayable debt?

SYNTAGMA 2009