"Buggins's turn" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Earliest recorded use is by Admiral Fisher, later First Sea Lord, in a 1901 letter.\n'Buggins' is a humorous invented surname, suggestive of a man of mediocre ability.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
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          "text": "He will be appointed on the principle of Buggins's turn."
        },
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          "text": "1919, Memories, John Fisher (reprinting a 1917 letter to him from an unnamed Privy Councillor) http://www.archive.org/stream/memoriesbyadmira00fishuoft#page/38/mode/2up\nI remembered your old saying \"Some day the Empire will go down because it is Buggins's turn.\"'"
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        "A humorous, disparaging term for the appointment of a person by rotation or promotion, on the basis of length of service (it being that person's \"turn\") rather than merit or level of qualification."
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        "(idiomatic, British) A humorous, disparaging term for the appointment of a person by rotation or promotion, on the basis of length of service (it being that person's \"turn\") rather than merit or level of qualification."
      ],
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  "word": "Buggins's turn"
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  "etymology_text": "Earliest recorded use is by Admiral Fisher, later First Sea Lord, in a 1901 letter.\n'Buggins' is a humorous invented surname, suggestive of a man of mediocre ability.",
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        {
          "text": "He will be appointed on the principle of Buggins's turn."
        },
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          "text": "1919, Memories, John Fisher (reprinting a 1917 letter to him from an unnamed Privy Councillor) http://www.archive.org/stream/memoriesbyadmira00fishuoft#page/38/mode/2up\nI remembered your old saying \"Some day the Empire will go down because it is Buggins's turn.\"'"
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        "A humorous, disparaging term for the appointment of a person by rotation or promotion, on the basis of length of service (it being that person's \"turn\") rather than merit or level of qualification."
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        "(idiomatic, British) A humorous, disparaging term for the appointment of a person by rotation or promotion, on the basis of length of service (it being that person's \"turn\") rather than merit or level of qualification."
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