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idle rich

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  • idle rich — Synonyms and related words: beggar, bummer, cadger, coupon clippers, drone, freeloader, leisure class, lounge lizard, lumpen proletariat, mendicant, moocher, nonworker, panhandler, parasite, rentiers, spiv, sponger, the unemployable, the… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich — is a work of humorous fiction by Stephen Leacock first published in 1914. It is the follow up to his 1912 classic Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town . Like that work, it is a sequence of interlocking stories set in one town, but instead of… …   Wikipedia

  • (the) idle rich — the idle rich showing disapproval phrase very rich people who can spend their time enjoying themselves rather than working Thesaurus: people who are lazy or slow to actsynonym Main entry: idle …   Useful english dictionary

  • the idle rich — showing disapproval very rich people who can spend their time enjoying themselves rather than working …   English dictionary

  • idle — i|dle1 [ aıdl ] adjective 1. ) machines or factories that are idle are not being used: The extra power stations are idle when demand is lower. stand/lie/sit idle: Valuable machinery is left to lie idle for long periods. a ) workers who are idle… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • idle — i|dle1 [ˈaıdl] adj [: Old English; Origin: idel] 1.) not working or producing anything ≠ ↑busy ▪ I cannot afford to leave the land lying idle . ▪ The whole team stood idle , waiting for the mechanic. ▪ The workers have been idle for the last six… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • idle — 1 adjective 1 not working or operating productively: Owing to the electricity strike, a lot of factory workers were left idle. | We can t afford to have all this expensive machinery lying idle. | the | idle rich (=rich people who do not work for… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • idle — I UK [ˈaɪd(ə)l] / US adjective Word forms idle : adjective idle comparative idler superlative idlest 1) a) machines or factories that are idle are not being used The extra power stations are idle when demand is lower. stand/lie/sit idle: Valuable …   English dictionary

  • rich — I adj. rich in (rich in coal deposits) II n. the idle rich * * * [rɪtʃ] the idle rich rich in (rich in coal deposits) …   Combinatory dictionary

  • idle — /ˈaɪdl / (say uydl) adjective (idler, idlest) 1. unemployed, or doing nothing: idle workers. 2. unoccupied, as time: idle hours. 3. not kept busy or in use or operation: idle machinery. 4. habitually doing nothing or avoiding work. 5. of no real… …  

  • idle — adj 1 *vain, nugatory, otiose, empty, hollow Analogous words: fruitless, bootless, *futile, vain: *ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious: trivial, paltry, *petty, trifling Contrasted words: significant, pregnant, meaningful (see …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

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