Buggins's turn | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,British)A humorous, disparaging term for the appointment of a person byrotationorpromotion, on the basis of length ofservice(it being that person's "turn") rather thanmeritor level ofqualification.He will be appointed on the principle ofBuggins's turn.1919,Memories, John Fisher (reprinting a 1917 letter to him from an unnamed Privy Councillor)[1]I remembered your old saying "Some day the Empire will go down because it isBuggins's turn."'

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