neglecting one's duties while drawing a salary
Rare, formal term for holding a position without performing its duties, often used in the context of official corruption or incompetence. Appears in the Chinese-derived idiom 尸位素餐.
See also: 尸位素餐
The four-character idiom 尸位素餐 is an expression that criticizes receiving pay without fulfilling one's duties.
neglecting duties while drawing pay; holding a sinecure
From Chinese 尸位 (shī wèi), literally 'corpse position', implying a person who occupies a post like a dead body, doing nothing. The exact historical derivation is uncertain; the spelling is conventionally associated with this meaning.