1 used to refer to a person who knows, or says they know, a lot about a subject without having direct experience of it: --
2 a comfortable chair with two resting places for the arms --
Race relations cannot be decreed by doctrinaires from office chairs or armchairs in this country.
I understood that it was preferable to keep the elderly members of the country fit, well and healthy—rather than having them atrophy in their armchairs.
There were armchairs on which the legs became loose after a week or two.
I can only cite the law as told me by the gentleman concerned with the two armchairs.
I saw many passengers in first class being served copious, tasty, delicious repasts: champagne, beautiful hostesses and stewards serving them, armchairs, comfort ?
Do not let us become vultures of compassion, peering at poverty on the small screen from comfortable armchairs.
There are 15 armchairs in the dock but only two places for counsel who represent the people in the dock.
There are 15 swivelling armchairs in the docks of the jury courts.
