boffin

One of our boffins once asked me what was the biggest machine in the world.

This, interestingly enough, was the one thing the boffins told us: get on and we will stop the war.

This is not just a technical subject that can be left to nuclear boffins.

Economists should be used in the way that the banks use them, as back room boffins.

You'll have to ask the boffins if you want to know about that - but, in the rough, that's the way it works.

The boffins, however, didn't have to test their theories in person.

The boffins seem to be holding up their end.

The first battalion of boffins will swing into action this August.

Remember one thing, pal, it's these boffins who are doing the sweating.

I sometimes wonder how much joined-up thinking boffins ever do.

"If the boffins can't figure it out, how do you expect me to know?"

The boffins from the department would have to check it out, and I wasn't going to touch anything until they had done so.

There's a chart with everybody's name on it, which has "Boffins" as a department.

The biorhythms program is simple and easy to use for those who know the subject but are not computer boffins.

Even the Boffins are sitting up and taking notice of him.'

No new boffins were on the job and certainly no biologists of any kind.

I mentioned this idea to some boffins at Houston.

I think these science boffins are amazing: The magicians of the modern age.

The only clear thought in my head was that the actual target hadn't been the two boffins.

Boffins at the Admiralty built the launch to make up for it.

I'd have to show it to one of the real boffins at the lab.'

He became perhaps the best known and most powerful of the "boffins," a British expression for scientific experts.

Linguistic boffins have no problems with a statement like "dim.

Your boffins shouldn't have too much trouble in coming up with a name.'

It's fast, black and lightweight, part assembled by a small group of boffins in Hampshire.