Do accept the reality you're a
desk jockey masquerading as an all-mountain hero for the weekend before it's back to the office, where you're free to slump in a chair for nine hours a day.
An author's note tells us that Truscott's "spirit and courage have been a major inspiration in the writing of the novel." MacDonald grew up as an itinerant military brat and had a
desk jockey air force officer for a father, like her fictional counterpart Madeline.
DESK JOCKEY: Although low, Eamon Dunphy's show has boosted TV3's Friday night ratings.
Just when you think he has not heard the question, he responds, "Well, Dan, that's absolutely right." Always the "well." Always the
desk jockey's name.
* Many staff nurses will view the informatics nurse specialist as a "
desk jockey," incapable or unwilling to provide bedside patient care.
Nonetheless, he prides himself on being a field marshal, rather than a
desk jockey. A seasoned marathon runner, he doesn't plan to curtail his globe-trotting.
Colonel has turned out to be just another spare-time
desk jockey.
I was patently not some
desk jockey. Yet, at the same time, my degree was in history and to this day it remains my passion; closely connected to which is the field of current affairs and global events.
But Hamilton said he may need a good old-fashioned aid that even the lowliest
desk jockey will recognise.
McCarthy is the lowly and underappreciated
desk jockey Susan Cooper, who works from a rodent-infested basement at the CIA's headquarters.
I was a young
desk jockey in the old Welsh Office in Cathays Park.
Needless to say, you're a black ops operative, not an accounts payable
desk jockey.