| But in the congratulating throng, a jobsworth barred him from the hallowed ground. |
| I resent some jobsworth thinking I'd blagged my way on to the practice ground. |
| This bore was regaling anyone who cared to listen with the story of how an officious jobsworth had refused him admission to some function or other. |
| If he had been a jobsworth he would have gone home but he stayed there for six or eight hours and got no extra pay. |
| Or maybe Britain's reputation for politeness is long gone, replaced by a surly jobsworth attitude that slowly sours every day in this city. |
| In one small room a grey-haired jobsworth barked angrily at three tourists who'd dared to point their fingers too close to a minor masterpiece. |
