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词组 pencil-pusher
释义 pencil-pusher
noun
  1. a person who works with words; a clerk or secretary US, 1881
    Usually derisive.
    • — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 31, 1945
    • [F]or a pencil-pusher he sure could flash plenty of Uncle Sam’s I.O.U.’s. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 69, 1946
    • — Jerry Robertson, Oil Slanguage, p. 95, 1954
    • I just love men who work hard, I mean who work with their hands. Yeah, I hate pencil pushers. — Hubert Selby Jr, Last Exit to Brooklyn, p. 204, 1957
  2. in the US Air Force, the navigator on a bomber aircraft US
    • American Speech, p. 310, December 1946: “More air force slang”
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