Sentence examples for idle man from inspiring English sources
"I'm just an idle man," he said.
There is a saying in Sierra Leone that 'an idle man is a devil's workshop'.
A wealthy, idle man with literary aspirations retreats to an isolated… City of Laughter, by Vic Gatrell (Walker; $45).
"I am not an idle man … some of the reports … I frankly felt sick last night when I read them.
A wealthy, idle man with literary aspirations retreats to an isolated villa in Tuscany with his new wife, where they make a pact: to abstain from sex until he finishes writing a story.
Apart from an idle man halfheartedly flipping through a book of local attractions, there was no one in the front of the shop, where miniature carved boats and model fish aged unwanted on the shelves.
Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary defines "flaneur" as "an idle man-about-town".
With unemployment at about 40percentt, a large number of idle men have little to do.
In the Koumassi neighborhood, idle men drift up to a rare open vendor, cadging a lone cigarette.
Its once-sodden culture, a product of lots of cheap booze and idle men hanging around late to vote, is much drier.
As they waited, they cracked their necks from side to side and scratched themselves, as idle men seem always to do under the guidance of artificial intelligence.
