rocking chair job
n.— «It will be no rocking-chair job for whoeever does the catching for the St. Louis Browns next season.» —“Batting ‘Em Out in The Hot Stoveleague” Washington Post Feb. 17, 1925. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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