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People who watch a lot of Do it Yourself TV-shows but never even attempt to initiate a project.
John is a total armchair craftsperson, loves DIT shows, but does not even own a hammer.
The average "smart" ass who assumes constraints loudly. These people are everywhere and only seem to ever come up with reasons why something won't work, or how it doesn't apply to them, and therefore must not apply to anyone else.
I didn't listen to all the armchair defeatists, instead I made a quick prototype and made $1,200 in my first month.
Someone who logs a geocache find, without having actually visited the geocache. Quite often getting a fellow geocacher to sign their name in the logbook, while they are elsewhere.
They may have found a lot of geocaches, but everyone knows they are an armchair logger.
Refers to someone who gives "ideas" about how things should have been done differently, or needs to be done in a better way, but has neither the ability nor the knowledge that required to deal with the case, and has never been in a similar scenario and never experienced in the like. Resembles the proverb: "After the ship has sunk everyone knows how she might have been saved".
"The marine's caption heard a lot of armchair strategist after he failed the battle".
An internet expert who believes anything and everything he/she posts is unquestionable fact, and has no burden to support any of his/her claims.
Bah, you can ask him for evidence all day long, but he's just another armchair dictator.
A lazy filmmaker who puts no effort in directing a movie. A armchair dictator is typically only in it for the paycheck.
George Lucas took an armchair dictator approach to making the prequels.
An armchair scholar is a person who thinks they are an expert on the subject after listening to one or two podcasts on the subject.
Don't tell me that climate change isn't real! How much research have you done? Don't be an armchair scholar!