pencil pusher
Example Sentences
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Villanelle, an elegant assassin excelled in her profession by being invisible; Eve's invisibility as a pencil pusher at MI5 made it easy for her peers to ignore her.
From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2022
“I was the pencil pusher, doing a lot of research. My state of the art tools were a slide rule and a Frieden computer. We were taking the theoretical and making it real.”
From The Verge ● Aug. 9, 2018
Clooney gained about 30 pounds in a month to play the pencil pusher.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2015
“If you let that stuff get to you, you end up with a nine-to-five as a pencil pusher, stuck in traffic,” Lane told me.
From Slate ● Nov. 7, 2011
"Hey, you pencil pusher," he called, "did you see the big boss?"
From The Story of General Pershing by Everett T.
