"Armchair" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 空头 | kōng tóu | phony / so-called / armchair (expert) / vain (promise) / (finance) short-seller / bear (market) / short (selling) |   |
| 扶手椅 | fú shǒu yǐ | armchair | |
| 单人沙发 | dān rén shā fā | (upholstered) armchair | |
| 交椅 | jiāo yǐ | old-style wooden folding armchair, typically featuring a footrest / (fig.) position in a hierarchy | |
| 纸上谈兵 | zhǐ shàng tán bīng | lit. military tactics on paper (idiom) / fig. theoretical discussion that is worse than useless in practice / armchair strategist / idle theorizing / cf Zhao Kuo 趙括|赵括[Zhao4 Kuo4] leading an army of 400,000 to total annihilation at battle of Changping 長平之戰|长平之战[Chang2 ping2 zhi1 Zhan4] in 260 BC | |
| 站着说话不腰疼 | zhàn zhe shuō huà bù yāo téng | it's all very well to talk, but getting things done is another matter (idiom) / to be an armchair expert / to blabber on | |
| 纸上谈兵的战略家 | armchair strategist | |
