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Boys will be boys even if they are 60 years old.
A number of people in the state think boys will be boys.
It's a world in which boys will be boys at every available opportunity.
Boys will be boys except when they're girls in boys' clothes.
There is no cultural parallel for boys will be boys.
"Boys will be boys" doesn't explain behavior on this level.
What, for instance, do people really mean when they say, "Boys will be boys"?
The "boys will be boys" excuse has got to go.
People around him shook their heads in a "boys will be boys" way.
Others write off dangerous acts as "boys will be boys".
Teachers make use of a discourse which regards male aggression as normal: 'Boys will be boys'.
She knows some people say boys will be boys, that the hazing was no big deal.
We're going to stop this 'boys will be boys' attitude from continuing in this country.
"Boys will be boys," one of the defense lawyers explained to the jury.
So, the hockey mentality has it, boys will be boys.
That, and a few water spouts, but then boys will be boys.
The reaction generally was boys will be boys, just the old carrot and stick.
If there is a message to this mayhem, it's that boys will be boys.
The "boys will be boys" attitude toward the misery many students suffer must stop.
"They figure boys will be boys, and they just look the other way," he said.
'Boys will be boys/ she said with a tolerant smile.
And almost as damaging is a parental attitude that "boys will be boys."
"I'm not saying boys will be boys, but this kind of behavior, while it's wrong, goes on everywhere and always has.
Boys will be boys and our two twins were no exception to this golden rule.
Ballantyne felt that the old saying "boys will be boys" was not correct.