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Definition of shiny bum in English: shiny bum(also shiny arse) noun Australian, NZ derogatory A bureaucrat or office worker. the shiny bums in head office were writing slimy little memos to the Prime Minister Example sentencesExamples - He told the conference companies were led by "corporate robber barons in their shiny-arse suits".
- I represent the working people who make this economy work, not these shiny bums down here in the capital.
- "That was where the shiny bums lived," he says.
- Teachers and principals do not want to say anything for fear of having their head shot off by some shiny bum way up the chain of command.
- The report talks about having more shiny bums, who sit on their backsides, or police officers who do not staff the patrol cars, walk the beats, or make the arrests.
- These shiny arse journos talk tourism up so much as New Zealand's economic saviour.
- A shiny arse who knows he is bulletproof isn't going to put in the mileage to prove he is the right choice once he is in there.
- Once again the shiny bums appointed to safeguard the national psyche have come up with an idea to excite the imagination of millions.
- Even when research and development is done, it is under control of engineers and most of the work involves simply scoping the research project, a shiny-bum job.
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