English-Spanish translations for armchair

sillónpor escrito. - Señora Presidenta, parece que esta tarde tenemos en la Cámara muchos generales de sillón. Madam President, well, we do seem to have a lot of armchair generals in the House this afternoon!
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de salónEs una forma barata de socialismo de salón. It is a cheap form of armchair socialism. Al final, tienes que decidir si quieres tener solidaridad europea o si quieres ceder ante la política de salón. In the end, you have to decide whether you want to have European solidarity or whether you want to give in to armchair politics. Estoy cansada de tener que tomar decisiones de salón sobre la posibilidad teórica de aportar pruebas de un salario justo en el país de origen del trabajador en un plazo de dos o cuatro semanas. I am tired of having to make armchair decisions about the theoretical possibility of providing evidence of fair pay in the worker's country of origin within two or four weeks.
de sillónpor escrito. - Señora Presidenta, parece que esta tarde tenemos en la Cámara muchos generales de sillón. Madam President, well, we do seem to have a lot of armchair generals in the House this afternoon!

A chair with supports for the arms or elbows
Remote from actual involvement, including a person retired from previously active involvement
Unqualified or uninformed but yet giving advice, especially on technical issues, such as law, architecture, medicine, military theory, or sports
To create based on theory or general knowledge rather than data
To theorize based on analysis of data that was gathered previously; to reflect

These days Im an armchair detective
Hes just an armchair lawyer who thinks he knows a lot about the law because he reads a legal blog on the internet
After the American football game, the armchair quarterbacks talked about what they would have done differently to win, if they had been star athletes instead of out-of-shape old men

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