pencil pusherとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

US origin, 1881.^[1][2]

名詞

pencil pusher (複数形 pencil pushers)

1. (informal, often derogatory) One who does routine office work; someone involved mainly in paperwork.

   Synonyms: office worker, bureaucrat, desk jockey, paper-pusher, pen-pusher

   • 2012, Danielle Steel, The Sins of the Mother, Random House, →ISBN, page 285:

     “ […] I don't have her creative genius or her version. I'm a numbers man, like my father. A pencil pusher, as Amanda said.” With no balls, he added silently.

   • 2013, Karin Slaughter, Busted, Random House, →ISBN:

     The internal investigator for the Macon Police Department had the dour, lifeless personality of a career pencil pusher.

参考

• desk job
• pixel pusher

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