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ˈrocking-chair
[rocking ppl. a.]
1. A chair mounted on rockers; also, a chair having a rocking seat attached to the base by springs.
1766in Hobbies (1949) Sept. 50/2 1st Mo. 1766, to a rocking Chair for andrew hunter 3/. 1832Mrs. Trollope Dom. Manners Amer. (1901) II. 109 They..sit in a rocking-chair, and sew a great deal. 1855Bain Senses & Int. ii. i. §19 The rocking chair, introduced by the Americans,..is another mode of gaining pleasure from movement. 1897‘Merriman’ In Kedar's Tents xxx, She was asleep in a rocking-chair, with a newspaper on her lap.
2. Used attrib. to designate something considered as being conducted or obtained at home, without first-hand experience of normal difficulties; spec. rocking-chair money, unemployment benefit. Cf. arm-chair, armchair. Chiefly U.S.
1933Sun (Baltimore) 27 Feb. 6/3 A question which delights every sewing circle and rocking-chair parade in the country. 1944Amer. Speech XIX. 156/2 Rockin' chair money, unemployment compensation. 1946Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 16 Jan. 5/2 An increase in ‘rocking chair money’ for the State's unemployed. 1959Globe & Mail (Toronto) 22 Apr. 7/1 The somewhat less sophisticated people of the Maritimes have a happier name for Unemployment Insurance... ‘Rockin' Chair Money’. 1962Daily Tel. 10 Sept. 10/2 A third U2 incident over Communist territory..will renew groans at the President's rocking-chair diplomacy. |