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A [[Stock Phrase]]. Some characters will occasionally utter this phrase. They're usually people who decide to do something their subordinates failed to do on their behalf. Never send an amateur to do a job you need an expert for, namely, the guy in charge.
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Compare [[Risking the King]].
 
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'''MOD:''' No more examples for now, please. Nail down what the trope is, first - that's why we moved this page back to the Trope Workshop - then we can worry about the examples.
 
== Film ==
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== Western Animation ==
* Dick Dastardly occasionally invoked this trope in ''[[Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines]]''.
* [[George of the Jungle|Baron Otto Matic]] twisted the trope in a [[George of the Jungle|''Tom Slick'']] episode where he entered his lackey Clutcher in a blimp race. As the Baron explained, if you want something right to go wrong, do it yourself.
* ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'':
** ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' episodeEpisode "The Pizza Patrol" featured a pizza parlor that featured the [[Thirty Minutes or It's Free]] policy. After Garfield tricked the delivery boys into missing the deadline every time one of them had to deliver a pizza, the pizza parlor's owner tried to deliver it by himself.
** In another episode, local mailman [[Meaningful Name|Herman Post]] was fired and his former boss, not able to find a mailman willing to take over the turf out of fear of Garfield, decided to deliver the mail himself. After enduring Garfield, he begged Herman to take the job back.
* In ''[[Steven Universe]]'', Holly Blue Agate uttered this line as she draws out her whip and attacked Steven and company.
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