英语词汇“to push paper”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P5. to push a pen (also a pencil): to work with or use a pen or pencil, esp. intensively; (hence) to generate paperwork, to do a routine or monotonous office job (also to push paper). Cf. pen-pusher n., paper-pusher n. 2.

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1875 Stevens Point (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 19 June Their genteel husbands are perhaps fingering lace and silk over a counter, or pushing a pen in an elegant counting-room.

1896 Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate 16 Jan. 2/4 The dramatic critic sat in his room pushing a pencil.

1925 R. F. Dibble Strenuous Americans 235 Her nimble fingers automatically pushed the pen that recorded the thoughts of her tireless brain.

1931 Times 7 Jan. 7/1 They worked in the open air and..were better off than they would have been pushing a pen in the City of London with another pound added to their wages.

1971 N. Stacey Who Cares? i. 19 It saddens me to hear of my old shipmates..pushing pens in Whitehall.

1998 D. Baldacci Simple Truth xxiv. 162 A wannabe weekend warrior, he concluded. Probably pushed a pencil Monday through Friday before slipping on his fatigues and gun looking for adventure.

2001 J. Hamilton-Paterson Loving Monsters (2002) xiii. 262 The great division in Cairo between the real soldiers who were actually doing the fighting and the rump of high-ranking layabouts who pushed paper and had mysterious jobs with long luncheons.

单词	to push paper
释义	> as lemmas to push paper P5. to push a pen (also a pencil): to work with or use a pen or pencil, esp. intensively; (hence) to generate paperwork, to do a routine or monotonous office job (also to push paper). Cf. pen-pusher n., paper-pusher n. 2. ΚΠ 1875 Stevens Point (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 19 June Their genteel husbands are perhaps fingering lace and silk over a counter, or pushing a pen in an elegant counting-room. 1896 Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate 16 Jan. 2/4 The dramatic critic sat in his room pushing a pencil. 1925 R. F. Dibble Strenuous Americans 235 Her nimble fingers automatically pushed the pen that recorded the thoughts of her tireless brain. 1931 Times 7 Jan. 7/1 They worked in the open air and..were better off than they would have been pushing a pen in the City of London with another pound added to their wages. 1971 N. Stacey Who Cares? i. 19 It saddens me to hear of my old shipmates..pushing pens in Whitehall. 1998 D. Baldacci Simple Truth xxiv. 162 A wannabe weekend warrior, he concluded. Probably pushed a pencil Monday through Friday before slipping on his fatigues and gun looking for adventure. 2001 J. Hamilton-Paterson Loving Monsters (2002) xiii. 262 The great division in Cairo between the real soldiers who were actually doing the fighting and the rump of high-ranking layabouts who pushed paper and had mysterious jobs with long luncheons. extracted from pushv. < as lemmas
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