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pencil pusher

One who has a boring, meaningless office job. Primarily heard in US. I refuse to be a pencil pusher the rest of my life. I have big dreams and goals!

pencil-pusher

n. a bureaucrat; a clerk; an office worker. (see also paper-pusher.) Look here, you lousy pencil-pusher, I want to talk to your boss!

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You can bet your life that the pencil-pusher who didn't cough up was getting paid.

WAGES OF SPIN

Either way, it's long past time for the pencil-pushers at the Treasury Department to do their housing homework.

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Instead, the pencil-pushers concentrated their efforts at the rear of the executive saloon.

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The car's chic exterior looks are a bit of a bonus, though, because the pencil-pushers at Toyota actually took a rather unusual approach by designing the Auris from the inside out.

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The pencil-pushers at Kia have also been busy of late, with an early view of a sporty little number.

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The pencil-pushers used what they describe as "kinetic" design, which expresses energy in motion.

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