idle man
Example Sentences
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They say the idle man is the devil's workshop.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2012
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
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
As a man of a civil profession seems awkward in camp or a garrison, and is even in some danger of being despised there, so does an idle man among men of business.
From An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Germain Garnier
