Term of the Night: sins of the father

sins of the father--depriving a young stagehand of work or blackballing him/her because you can't stand his/her father. "When it was time for the young stagehand to be voted into the local, he got a large number of 'no' votes. A lot of old timers didn't like his father. It wasn't personal against the kid...it was a case of the sins of the father."