Wiktionary
pencil pusher
alt. (context idiomatic often derogatory English) One who does routine office work; someone involved mainly in paperwork. n. (context idiomatic often derogatory English) One who does routine office work; someone involved mainly in paperwork.
WordNet
pencil pusher
n. a clerk who does boring paperwork [syn: penpusher]
Usage examples of "pencil pusher".
She said, 'Toots, if Johnny was alive he'd be one plenty powerful hungan, but that don't mean I have to open the door to ev'ry pink pencil pusher takes a notion to pay a call.
He's probably a pencil pusher in MI-5 with a wife and nine kids who'd be horrified to read the books them writers made up about him here.
If he could pull this off, he would really show her that he was more than a pencil pusher.