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  • She had no idea of encouraging what she called idleness.

    Hollyhock A Spirit of Mischief L. T. Meade 1884

  • We just ran into the idiom (modismo) "roncando en sus anchas" which apparently from the context means wasting time in idleness.

    roncando en sus anchas 2007

  • We just ran into the idiom (modismo) "roncando en sus anchas" which apparently from the context means wasting time in idleness.

    roncando en sus anchas 2007

  • We just ran into the idiom (modismo) "roncando en sus anchas" which apparently from the context means wasting time in idleness.

    roncando en sus anchas 2007

  • We just ran into the idiom (modismo) "roncando en sus anchas" which apparently from the context means wasting time in idleness.

    roncando en sus anchas 2007

  • We just ran into the idiom (modismo) "roncando en sus anchas" which apparently from the context means wasting time in idleness.

    roncando en sus anchas 2007

  • We had a sleeping giant prior to the outbreak of war; when Hitler was training his boys with broomsticks, we were keeping our people in idleness.

    Canadian Agriculture in the War Effort 1943

  • When he was building his great mechanized military machine, the greatest the world has ever known, we were still keeping our people in idleness.

    Canadian Agriculture in the War Effort 1943

  • Why is it that no one recognizes that there is a lot of sheer, unadulterated laziness and shiftlessness and that those qualities should meet their just punishment and not be supported by a government reward, for "those who toil not, neither do they spin", yet are supported in idleness.

    A Business Man Speaks Up 1943

  • They do not tell the people who are working that it is they who are keeping the rest of the population that is being maintained in idleness.

    The Handwriting On Parliament's Wall 1938

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