prolongers

For two prolongers [_i. e._ save-alls] and an extinguisher

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

"Retiring troops," he wrote, "greeted one particular division (the cavalry) that was going up fresh and gallantly to the attack, with shouts of 'Blacklegs!' and 'War-prolongers!"'

Now It Can Be Told Philip Gibbs 1919

They are the scourge of dinner tables and the despised prolongers of office meetings, some letting fly as instinctively as dogs bark and frogs croak, no longer concerned even with drawing applause; they simply can’t help themselves.

Punditry 2009