boom-boy

Updated: May 19, 2025

I tell you" he had swung round to Claude, who had just come upon the stage "I'd rather have this opera of yours than Sennier's, although he's known all over creation and you're nothing but a boom-boy up to now. I used to believe in names, but upon my word seems to me the public's changing. Give 'em the goods and they don't care where they come from."

Robert Smythe Hichens - The Way of Ambition