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
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
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
Five minutes later, Dr. Bethel and 'Squire Brookhouse were going up the hill toward the house of the latter, while I, still smoking, sauntered in the opposite direction, lazily, as beseemed an idle man.
From Out of a Labyrinth by Lynch, Lawrence L.
