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straw boss. A writer discussing hobo lingo in American Speech almost half a century ago traced this term to the late- 19th-century American farm. “The (real) boss attended to the grain going into the thresher,” he explained; “the secondman (or straw boss) watched the straw coming out and hence had little to do.” Thus the term straw boss has come to mean anyone, especially a foreman, who gives orders but has no real authority to enforce them. |