swivel chair job
n.— «Last year a hero, who had had some swivel-chair job during the war, came up here crowing about his valor.» —“Says Youth Did Not Fire Shot” Gettysburg Times (Pa.) Dec. 15, 1920. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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