golden-rocking-chair job
n.— «He got screwed by an employer who had promised him a golden-rocking-chair job. Ironically, that employer sold to another who already was unionized, and my father managed to work long enough to earn a meager pension.» —“You Can Thank Your Brothers And Sisters” by Jon Hahn Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Wash.) Aug. 29, 2000. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...
A Kentucky listener says her father often prefaced statements with the phrase I tell you what’s the truth. This regionalism appears in the Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English (Bookshop|Amazon). A shorter version is I’ll tell you...