rond de cuir
/rɒ̃ də ˈkwɪə/noun
1In France: a bureaucrat; a person who works at a desk, an office worker; (also) bureaucrats or office workers collectively.
2A round leather cushion, traditionally used on office chairs in France.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Imperial & Asiatic Quarterly Review. From French rond de cuir round leather cushion, (depreciatively) bureaucrat from rond round object + de + cuir leather.
- young person
- Young's modulus
- youngster
- Young, Steve
- youngstock
- Youngstown
- Young, Thomas
- Young Turk
- Young Turkish
- young 'un
- young un
- young woman
- young-womanhood
- young-womanly
- Young–Helmholtz
- younker
- you (or he etc.) will be lucky (or should be so lucky)
- you (or we) live and learn
- you (or you've) said it!
- you pays your money and you takes your choice
- your
- your actual ——
- Yourcenar, Marguerite
- you're
- you reap what you sow