cookie pusher
noun2
Derogatory, Slang A diplomat, especially a member of the United States Foreign Service.
- Early in 1951, Lovett told reporters: “He's no cookie pusher. He's a giant.” Francis Russell from public affairs, who chatted with him often, said he never mentioned McCarthy.2009, Robert Beisner, Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War, page 311:
- Our ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary, a cookie pusher from Foggy Bottom, was called to Downing Street and read the well-known riot act by the prime minister for allowing such undiplomatic behavior […]2012, Richard Marcinko, John Weisman, Detachment Bravo: