"armchair" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Sir, what a wonderful subject for the armchair detective is that of British railway history!
- This is one of three books of short stories featuring Orczy's armchair detective, and although the first published it is second chronologically.
- Despite his vanity about his own talents, Bill Owen is a nondescript armchair detective.
- Tyson said with a touch of sarcasm, "I've heard of armchair detectives.
- Perhaps it's a cheap shot for an armchair detective to whine about the caution of dedicated and exceptionally hard-working investigators.
- She replied, "Karl is the typical armchair detective."
- The urgency of the threat has even led doctors not involved in investigating the outbreak to try to aid their colleagues by being armchair detectives.
- As the armchair detective never sees any of the investigation, the reader can attempt to solve the mystery on the same terms as the detective.
- Her character The Old Man In the Corner was among the earliest armchair detectives to be created.
- In the person of armchair detective Tabaret, nicknamed Père Tireauclair, (lit.
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