paper-pusher not polite
pen pusher BrE not polite
pencil pusher AmE not polite
paper-shuffler informal

"Make sure he understands you," the pen pusher said.

Take the money away from the pen pushers and busy bodies and employ more science teachers.

"Half of them are from the pen pushers who like to dream and to think and throw out these possibilities," he said.

"In that case, he's a pen pusher I countered.

What happens in education is that the ambitious get themselves promoted out of the classroom and end up as pen pushers too removed from the process.

Who'd want to live out here for the sake of some government, some army brass, a bunch of pen pushers?

Pen pushers, grammar-school grey men, boffins, all seemed to be favoured ahead of him.

Harry Strang was one of the few pen pushers who could legitimately claim to have been an agent.

As a pen pusher and landlubber, he is as much of an outsider as the reader.

"The pen pusher I asked.

Supporting perked up pen pushers isn't.

These embassy pen pushers have all got PhDs in self-preservation: they'll dump you the moment they are told to cut back.

A pox to pen pushers.'

Pen Pusher provided a platform for new writing talent and welcomes submissions of reviews, features, short fiction and poetry.

"He thinks pen pusher!"

There's an army of bowler-hatted Whitehall pen pushers out there who could be done away with, thereby avoiding the painful reality of raising taxes.

Paul Stapleton, who manages the company, thinks these nit-picking pen pushers are acting like proper prats - and I couldn't agree more.

Get rid of public sector fat, with all those pen pushers, bloated back offices, diversity officers, winterval co-ordinators etc.

Then an assessment of the Civil Service and the ranks and ranks and ranks of pen pushers.

Pen Pusher was a London-based literary magazine, published three times a year, that featured original short fiction, poetry, reviews, columns, literary facts and curiosities.

In 1941 Pen Pushers commenced in the ABC Weekly and soon after he linked up with Frank Johnson Publications.

She has written for The Guardian and Pen Pusher and has travelled extensively throughout the US, Europe and Asia.

All teachers must have an MA and therefore are trusted to deliver without some outside agency full of failed teachers and pen pushers coming in to tell them what is good practice.

All field agents soon learn that the pen pushers in London don't want to be told about the spilled blood and the nasty treacher ous ways that their will is done.

"We've put councillors in the driving seat - so the next time bossy local bureaucrats and paranoid pen pushers try and grab the wheel, they should remind them who is in charge."

"I was the pencil pusher, doing a lot of research.

This shift from hard hats to pencil pushers will continue.

The same pencil pushers who'd sent them to him?

Pencil pushers in the city aren't satisfied with their jobs.

Nothing to brag about, just your average, overweight pencil pushers.

Not a pencil pusher with his head in his behind."

"I don't want to be a pencil pusher," he said.

He was holding a clipboard and appeared to be just another useless pencil pusher.

But these were pencil pushers and stampers and people that gave a few shots a month.

Not that he'd kowtow to any pencil pusher anyhow.

Is it criminal or political, pencil pusher?

Its championship basketball tournament for men and women remains here, but many fear that it may eventually follow the pencil pushers in the headquarters.

And when an aspect of the recovery didn't meet expectations, they blamed the pencil pushers who administered the programs.

Booker was from Langley, and they were so paranoid even the pencil pushers probably had fakes.

These were not the bureaucrats or pencil pushers of the New York office, but its veteran undercover and investigative men.

"It's so much more exciting to be a force of nature than to be a regulation-bound pencil pusher, right, Captain?"

He was a pencil pusher : "42,000 Jews from Treblinka."

To the uninitiated, the proposed change sounds like just another yawnfest best left to pencil pushers.

We dull bean counters and pencil pushers?

Except, I guess, if you are a pencil pusher calculating "deaths per Megawatt".

"Bad enough to be sick," said Runny Eyes, "without being demeaned by pencil pushers."

"I'm not a pencil pusher.