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armchair
1. Sessel, Armstuhl
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armchair
1. subst. A chair with supports for the arms or elbows.
2. adj. (figuratively) Remote from actual involvement, including a person retired from previously active involvement.
These days I'm an armchair detective.
3. adj. (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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Sessel
1. n-m. (Germany) armchair, easy chair (comfortable chair with supports for the arms or elbows)
2. n-m. (Austria) chair (any item of furniture used for sitting by one person)

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Wait, I will sit down in the armchair more comfortable.  It gives you the sensation of being in a cool, air conditioned room, sitting in a plush armchair, drinking a glass of ice tea.  A treat for armchair travellers, the resulting travelogue will soon have you snuggling further down the duvet.

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