Get the foreman's job

Get the foreman's job
take a white collar job as in management, politics, etc., such usually regarded as a betrayal of a working class background (from the rhyme 'the working class can kiss my arse, I've got the foreman's job at last', often sung to the tune of 'The Red Flag')

Dictionary of Australian slang . 2013.

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