OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 18401

armchair

/ˈɑː(ɹ)mtʃɛə(ɹ)/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
de salón • de sillón
Remote from actual involvement, including a person retired from previously active involvement.
These days I'm an armchair detective.
armchair travels
de salón • de sillón
Unqualified or uninformed but yet giving advice, especially on technical issues, such as law, architecture, medicine, military theory, or sports; relating to such advice.
After the game, the armchair quarterbacks talked about what they would have done differently to win.
He's just an armchair lawyer who thinks he knows a lot about the law because he reads a legal blog.
Phrases
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Word forms
📚 noun • entry_id 18400

armchair

/ˈɑː(ɹ)mtʃɛə(ɹ)/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
butaca • poltrona • silla poltrona • sillón
A chair with supports for the arms or elbows.
There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker arm-chairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had also emerged some Indi…
[W]hen he [Pooh] suddenly saw Piglet sitting in his best arm-chair, he could only stand there rubbing his head and wondering whose house he was in.
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