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jumbo jet people

jumbo jet people
 n.pl.— «Now your biggest concern, despite the headlines, really isn’t boat people is it? It’s jumbo jet people who come here on proper visas and then overstay and claim refugee status?» —“Sunday: Philip Ruddock, Immigration & Ethnic Affairs” by Paul Lyneham NineMSN (Australia) Aug. 10, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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