desk jockey

桌球员,桌子上的骑师,桌子上的骑手,桌子管理员

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
Informal.
- : an office worker who sits at a desk, often as contrasted with someone who does more important or active work: desk jockeys at the CIA.

nounan office worker

Synonyms

Contrary to what you’d probably guess, the employees who participated in the trial weren’t all desk jockeys—in fact, many of them worked in roles with a high level of person-to-person interaction.
I was sick in street gutters, onto my desk, at dinners with friends.
But Scott, in taking the parlance of the street to the SportsCenter desk, helped affirm its ascendance.
President Harry Truman kept a sign on his desk that read: “The Buck Stops Here.”
While the desk sergeant ran a background check, he was roughed up by another officer in the lock-up.
She suggested that Gregory stack newspapers on his desk to give the set an intimate, coffeehouse feel.
At his desk sat his secretary, who had been a witness of the interview, lost in wonder almost as great as the Seneschal's own.
Taking his stand at the end of the desk, he made MacRae reiterate in detail the grim happenings of that night.
Dobson, mouth agape, struck a little bell on the desk and the orderly stepped in from the outer room.
When I again turned to Lessard he still stood at the end of the desk, industriously paring his fingernails.
He took his accustomed seat at the desk, and placed a large ledger before him.