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Armchair from the Pearson Scott Foresman collection



  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˌɑː(ɹ)mˈtʃeə(ɹ)/
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armchair (plural armchairs)

  1. A chair with supports for the arms or elbows.
    • 1928: A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
      [] when he suddenly saw Piglet sitting in his best armchair he could only stand there rubbing his head and wondering whose house he was in.


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armchair (comparative more armchair, superlative most armchair)

  1. (figuratively) Remote from actual involvement, including a person retired from previously active involvement.
    These days I'm an armchair detective.
  2. (figuratively) Unqualified or uninformed but yet giving advice, especially on technical issues, such as law, architecture, medicine, military theory, or sports.
    He's just an armchair lawyer who thinks he knows a lot about the law because he reads a legal blog on the internet.
    After the American football game, the armchair quarterbacks talked about what they would have done differently to win, if they had been star athletes instead of out-of-shape old men.


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