armchair
armc·hair
noun
adjective
1.
remote from actual involvement
- “armchair warriors in the Pentagon”
- “an armchair anthropologist”
Origin
From arm + chair.
Phrases
- armchair copy
- armchair critic
- armchair criticism
- armchair general
- armchair hawk
- armchair linguistics
- armchair psychologist
- armchair psychology
- ivory tower
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