idiomsayingsaid toemphasizethatpeopleshould not besurprisedwhenboysor menactin aroughornoisyway because this ispartof themalecharacter男孩子就是这样；男人总归是男人(Definition ofboys will be boysfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus? Cambridge University Press)
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boys will be boysI suppose thatboyswillbeboys—they will wear the latest fashionable clothes, drive the latest fashionable cars and acquire the latest fashionable goods.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0It was wrong of them, no doubt, butboyswillbeboys.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Boyswillbeboys, and we have all been young.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Boyswillbeboys, and the idea is that they actually fire at each other and the hits that they record are electronically registered.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Becauseboyswillbeboys, it is natural for a boy to jump over a fence rather than walk round and go through the legitimate way.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Others write off dangerous acts asboyswillbeboys.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The auxiliary will can also be used to indicate gnomic aspect (boyswillbeboys).FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/boys-will-be-boys##
