feather-bedded

Best jack I knew, now a feather-bedded bureaucrat.

Why front-line police officers are glad about Dizaei « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

It is hard not to grow weary of the repeated references to feather-bedded, pen-pushing bureaucrats in Whitehall.

Cabinet secretary slams 'absurd' misrepresentation of civil servants Polly Curtis 2010

It could be said that lab rats are feather-bedded, like modern humans, shielded from the cutting edge of natural selection.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

It could be said that lab rats are feather-bedded, like modern humans, shielded from the cutting edge of natural selection.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

Extract: The stark contrast between job fears in the private sector and feather-bedded life on public funds was dramatically laid bare yesterday.

FAT CATS... 2009

What makes me mad is that these feather-bedded classes then feel all morally superior to some poor sod who moans about Poles in the workforce.

Economic Mobility or Migration? Valleys Mam 2007

He almost erupted as he thought of how Mel had fooled him and feather-bedded her retirement from the job.

The Playboy Boss's Chosen Bride Darcy, Emma 2006

Saudi Arabia became a feather-bedded welfare state over 30 years ago, but, while it's hardly thriving today, it hasn't yet decayed into the moral chaos of the American slums, probably due to the fanatical version of Islam practiced there.

Archive 2005-11-13 Steve Sailer 2005

Saudi Arabia became a feather-bedded welfare state over 30 years ago, but, while it's hardly thriving today, it hasn't yet decayed into the moral chaos of the American slums, probably due to the fanatical version of Islam practiced there.

More on polygamy in France Steve Sailer 2005

He'd thought probably like most of the public interested in the tale that it was another instance of someone who had been too feather-bedded for too many years getting his knickers in a twist about something.

A Traitor to Memory George, Elizabeth 2001