Engineer
Tell
Tell verb - To give an oral or written account of in some detail.
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In Orson Scott Card's horror novel The Lost Boys (no vampires appear) a young software engineer will tell anyone who listens that he makes more money than God.
Source: Blasphemous Boast -
Poor Communication Kills: Why doesn't anyone just tell Johnnie that he is performing vital wartime work as a railroad engineer?
Source: Film / The General - The Detroit guys sent a message to 3M's chief engineer telling him some variation on "take this Scotch tape to your Scotch bosses and tell them to put adhesive down the middle."
Source: Thrifty Scot
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