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at loose ends
Idioms and Phrases
In an unsettled or uncertain situation. For example, This whole visit has left me feeling restless, constantly at loose ends , or Jane couldn't find a job this year and so is at loose ends for the summer . [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
While a few extra characters are left at loose ends and therefore feel extraneous, those aren’t necessary for the communication of the central ideas of class warfare and hypocrisy.
So much so that when Lourdes Lopez, the director of Miami City Ballet, reached out to him, eager to help a Ukrainian dancer at loose ends, he hesitated.
One blazing afternoon in the summer of 1973, Rudy Calvo found himself at loose ends.
Affleck also seems completely at loose ends here.
On the surface it looks like it’s about a young man at loose ends who becomes a handyman to earn a little money, but really it’s about how a person becomes an artist.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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