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out of work
Idioms and Phrases
Unemployed; also, having no work to do. For example, He lost his job a year ago and has been out of work ever since , or They don't give her enough assignments—she's always out of work . Shakespeare used this expression in Henry V (1:2): “All out of work and cold for action.”Example Sentences
Though he was out of work for a year, he said Girardi kept him on at full salary.
There is something old-fashioned about these folks and their power relations, including Coop’s decision that he’d rather steal than admit he’s out of work — toxic male insecurity.
But it does not include welfare payments for those out of work, or costs for police services dealing with people in crisis.
Currently out of work and unable to afford traditional counseling sessions, she decided to try using an AI chatbot to help her process her feelings.
In her address to MPs on Wednesday, Reeves said "it can't be right" to "write off" an entire generation who are out of work and improperly using Pips.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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