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‘Father, I joined up to be a soldier, not a desk jockey.’
‘Mind, when I did my English degree I didn't reckon on being a terminally bored desk jockey, you might reasonably point out.’
‘Given the rarity value of what had been set before us, how many more words would the desk jockeys back in head office demand?’
‘In his success, desk jockeys everywhere are allowed to think that they still have a chance at athletic prowess.’
‘My father worked as a desk jockey at some office in Boston.’
‘For those of you new to this whole ‘Internet’ thing, a googler is a desk jockey who's become so adept at finding idiosyncratic (and sometimes even relevant) things on the Net's finest search engine that they actually warrant a title.’
‘Icy air bit into our lungs and sweat trickled under multiple layers of clothing: it's moments like those that make desk jockeys like us feel truly alive.’
‘The team of soldiers included a newly appointed staff sergeant, a dedicated veteran, a trained fighter, and a desk jockey who was suddenly thrust into battle.’
‘The switch from tracksuited gaffer to desk jockey has complicated the job no end and few now survive long at any one club.’
‘I don't really care about all that because I'm a desk jockey - a professional paper pusher.’
‘These people are desk jockeys that enjoy expensive lunches.’
‘I'm told that at any one time, 4,000 Gardaí are serving in stations up and down the country as desk jockeys.’
‘Most people expect a major to be a balding, thickly mustached and overweight desk jockey.’
‘But the real growth in adventure racing is in shorter races aimed at weekday desk jockeys looking for fun and adventure outside of billable hours.’
‘Massive corporate desk jockeys aren't always in the best of physical condition.’