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Meanings of idle hands in English
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Usage of idle hands in English
1
Nine and a half hours to sit with idle hands, in suspense.
2
After he had gone from the room she sat with idle hands.
3
A small crowd gathered, of idle hands distracted from their appointed tasks.
4
The old life was reaching out its friendly, idle hands toward her.
5
Take pity on me and give my idle hands something to do.
6
We are hard-pressed to find mischief for our idle hands to do.
7
Satan, it is said, has mischief still for idle hands to do.
8
Somehow, it don't seem natural for me to sit with idle hands.
9
And pray what mischief still have your idle hands found to do?
10
How true it is that the devil finds work for idle hands!
11
It's more a case of the devil finding work for idle hands.
12
Galbraith retorted, 'They have six hundred idle hands to play with!'
13
In his experience, idle hands on a boat made for trouble all around.
14
Autumn would not pass and he with idle hands neither give nor gather.
15
They did think Satan was going about continually to catch up idle hands.
16
Miss Cornelia was not going to sit with idle hands, even on Christmas.
This collocation consists of:
Idle hands through the time
Idle hands across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common