idle man
Example Sentences
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They say the idle man is the devil's workshop.
From BBC • Aug. 1, 2012
According to the plot, Cassel has other things on his mind, for he plays a professional scapegrace taught by his knavish old granddad "to be an idle man."
From Time Magazine Archive
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One South German auto manufacturer, after hiring every idle man in 30 miles not confined to a wheelchair, sent a recruiting team through Germany offering competitors' workers big pay increases.
From Time Magazine Archive
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You would find room for the profitable investment of much of your chronic reserves of idle capital and idle man power.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I never knew an idle man to be converted.
From Sowing and Reaping by Moody, Dwight Lyman