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chairwarmer - 1987 - someone who is useless and ineffective while holding a position, as in "Biden would at most be a chairwarmer of a president"
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|1987<ref>William Safire popularized this word in his regular ''New York Times'' column entitled''On Language'' (March 8, 1987).</ref>
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|someone who is useless and ineffective while holding a position, as in "[[Biden]] would at most be a chairwarmer of a president"
 
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