idle man

Oasis and Warehouse, along with fellow group members The Idle Man and Bastyan Fashions, have gone into administration.

"I am not an idle man… Some of the reports… I frankly felt sick last night when I read them. I am not immune to the ideas that this is a hideous crime and I am deeply embarrassed. But I can say with honesty that at the time that I was both deputy and chief constable, I had no idea of the scale and scope of this type of organised crime."

They say the idle man is the devil's workshop.

The idle man had an industrious wife, who taught the children, of whom James was the eldest, what little she knew; but they must all help to earn as soon as they were able, and James Brindley earned wages at any ordinary laborer's work that he could get until he was seventeen years old.

The garden of the Tuileries is an idle man's paradise.