Armchair


a with sidepieces or to support a person’s forearms or elbows.
theorizing without the benefit of practical experience:
an armchair football coach.
participating or experiencing indirectly or vicariously:
an armchair traveler.
Contemporary Examples

armchair sleuths have been competing for years to determine the identity of one of the most notorious serial killers.
Jack the Ripper Is Still at Large Christopher Moraff September 28, 2014

We need a generation of hand-to-hand digital soldiers, not armchair generals.
Obama’s Internet Misfire Douglas Rushkoff May 28, 2009

And Kody, in jeans and striped button-down shirt, reclined in an armchair opposite Janelle.
Sister Wives Season 2: Polygamy’s Strange Charm Joyce C. Tang March 9, 2011

The New York Post called it a “head fake,” and armchair physicians smelled a conspiracy.
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s Lovefest on ‘60 Minutes’ Lauren Ashburn January 27, 2013

Owen, coming down, seems more inclined to stay in his armchair.
High on Study Drugs Daniel D’Addario May 8, 2010

Historical Examples

He took off his coat, and slunk to his armchair, where he began to take off his boots.
Sons and Lovers David Herbert Lawrence

I exclaimed, flinging myself into an armchair, “what does this man want now with me?”
My Double Life Sarah Bernhardt

The scribe waited to hear him pass up-stairs, or settle himself in an armchair in the kitchen.
The Watchers of the Plains Ridgewell Cullum

The armchair excepted, she received him as she would have received the King.
The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete Duc de Saint-Simon

Sir Thomas Gourlay had got up some hours before, and was seated in an armchair as she entered.
The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain William Carleton

noun
a chair, esp an upholstered one, that has side supports for the arms or elbows
(modifier) taking no active part; lacking practical experience; theoretical: an armchair strategist
(modifier) participated in away from the place of action or in the home: armchair theatre
n.

also arm-chair, 1630s, from arm (n.1) + chair; adjective sense in reference to “criticism of matters in which the critic takes no active part” is from 1886.

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