rocking chair job
n.— «I could easily have bribed myself into a rocking chair job in the Army or Navy during the war and would have avoided al the trouble I had.» —“Draft Dodger Bergdoll Denies Bribery in Escape” in Philadelphia Syracuse Herald (N.Y.) Feb. 22, 1934. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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