rocking chair job
n.— «I could even welcome just a straight lead for a change, because that’s really a rocking-chair job.» —“In Movie Field, Gene Kelly Proves A Quintuple Threat” by Edwin Schallert Los Angeles Times Oct. 7, 1951. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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