armchair critic
collocation in Englishmeaningsofarmchairandcritic
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armchair
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈɑːm.tʃeər/us/ˈɑːrm.tʃer/
used to refer to a person who knows, or says they know, a lot about a subject without having direct experience ...
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critic
noun[C]
uk/ˈkrɪt.ɪk/us/ˈkrɪt̬.ɪk/
someone who says that they do not approve of someone ...
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(Definition ofarmchairandcriticfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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I would not call him anarmchaircritic.
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It is very easy to be anarmchaircriticof this highly complicated situation.
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I do not want to act as a pundit, commentator andarmchaircritic.
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His voice and other traits were intended to incorporate a sense of humor to avoid making the reviewer sound too much like a nerd orarmchaircritic.
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The regiments will put all their armchair critics to flight whatever challenges lie ahead.
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It is high time that the armchair critics understood that fact.
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That was an implied criticism of armchair critics.
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It is the work of no armchair critics.
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We are not here simply in the position of armchair critics.
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They are not armchair critics of what has obtained in the past.
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There are far too many armchair critics in this country who think that they know best.
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We must remember that we are concerned with the possible deterrence on criminals, not on armchair critics considering it afterwards.
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I can understand the resentment of sportsmen to those armchair critics who pass judgment on something that they have never personally witnessed.
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It would be easy to sit back and do nothing; we could sit back like armchair critics and do nothing.
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They are what one might term the armchair critics; those who venture out from time to time and then try to tell us how we should run our affairs.
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I am very chary of the one or two armchair critics or generals who talk at such times of a quick and swift end to the war.
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I believe he has handled it sensitively but with that realism that only people in government have to face and not those who are armchair critics from a distance.
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He was literally pilloried by armchair critics, the media and an ignorant public for letting in so many goals.
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