Meanings of naughty schoolboys in English

Instead of being called to take an active part in home and foreign politics, they were being treated as naughty schoolboys.

When we stick them in vases, they are more like a row of naughty schoolboys standing on a form to be punished.

There is your stall, and why on earth should you stand here and call us all over as we come in, like naughty schoolboys?

With a stern bark and no-nonsense instructions, he has the ability to reduce even the biggest and toughest of players into feeling like naughty schoolboys.

After a brief, stunned silence, they both began laughing, like two naughty schoolboys who'd fallen out of a tree and were buried in Christmas snow.