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desk pilots
n. (desk pilot English)
Usage examples of "desk pilots".
Almost exactly the same time the skitter was due back from Edo, assuming the desk pilots there had been halfway efficient at pulling up Quinn's orders.
Half of which, at least, had been on the subject of desk pilots and their harebrained schemes.
You know, the one titled: Harebrained Schemes Hatched by Desk Pilots Who Dont Know a Dead Drop From a Hole in the Ground.