pencil pusher
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Dad is in perpetual mourning for a son who died in the first Gulf War and considers John, in comparison, a milquetoasty pencil pusher.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
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
"Hey, you pencil pusher," he called, "did you see the big boss?"
From The Story of General Pershing by Everett T.
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