paper shuffler

“I was not voted onto the board as an accountant, administrator, paper shuffler or bureaucrat, but rather to lead the charge of the good guys against the bad guys in this vile culture war that has reached a deafening roar,” wrote Mr. Nugent, a former columnist for The Washington Times.

He wanted to know what made a hedge-fund manager more than “a paper shuffler.”

If Chernenko's thoughts have ever differed from Brezhnev's on any issue, he has kept quiet about it; one Western diplomat in Moscow refers to him as Brezhnev's "paper shuffler."

Although some critics, including a number of top military men, dismiss him as "a good paper shuffler" and as Kissinger's errand boy within the White House, Scowcroft is hardly an automaton.

There isn't a month that goes by that some paper shuffler like me doesn't inquire, 'How're you coming along?'