pencil pusher

“I’m a pencil pusher,” he told us, stretching out the cup of pencils in his hand in front of him again, like that would make it make more sense.

The hiring is mostly focused on pencil pushers, and even the increased enforcement is focused on the richest Americans.

Villanelle, an elegant assassin excelled in her profession by being invisible; Eve's invisibility as a pencil pusher at MI5 made it easy for her peers to ignore her.

She once again began at an entry-level position, as a “pencil pusher,” she said, before slowly carving out an expertise in Arab-Israeli relations.

“I was the pencil pusher, doing a lot of research. My state of the art tools were a slide rule and a Frieden computer. We were taking the theoretical and making it real.”