idle away time

Example Sentences

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To talk of home rule is to idle away time.

From Cuba Its Past, Present, and Future by Hall, Arthur D.

But since I see, that thou wilt here abide, And thus forslothe* wilfully thy tide,** *idle away **time God wot, *it rueth me;* and have good day.'

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing

Still others merely leaned against convenient trees, looking at each other, their mouths moving in the grotesque way of the pseudoman when he could find an excuse to idle away time.

From The Weakling by Dongen, H. R. van