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.