the devil makes work for idle hands

釋義

1. 人閒生是非

   people who do not have enough to do often start to do wrong

   She blamed the crimes on the local jobless teenagers.'The devil makes work for idle hands,' she would say.她認為那些違法活動是當地的無業青少年所為，總是說：“人一閒，惹麻煩。”

同一詞條的短語

• be a devil
• better the devil you know
• between the devil and the deep blue sea
• the devil
• the devil looks after his own
• a devil of a job
• go to the devil
• like the devil
• speak of the devil
• what, where, who, why, the devil
• the devil to pay
• sell your soul