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at a loose end

prep_phrase

Definitions

  1. Idle

    Idle; bored

    • Once the schools break up for the holidays, children across the country are at a loose end and instances of kids doing stupid things on the railway become far too common.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for at a loose end. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA