Idiom: Devil finds work for idle hands
Idiom Definitions for 'Devil finds work for idle hands'
When people say that the devil finds work for idle hands, they mean that if people don't have anything to do with their time, they are more likely to get involved in trouble and criminality.
- Category: Religion
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Idioms similar to 'Devil finds work for idle hands'
- Devil finds work for idle hands
- Idle hands are the devil's handiwork
- Many hands make light work
- Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while
- Better the devil you know
- Let the devil take the hindmost
- Devil may care
- Devil's advocate
- Devil is in the detail
- Speak of the devil!
- Hands down
- If you lie down with the Devil, you will wake up in hell
- Between the devil and the deep blue sea
- Play into someone's hands
- Hold your hands up
- Clean hands
- Get your hands dirty
- My hands are full
- Wash your hands of something
- My hands are tied
- Safe pair of hands
- Work like a dog
- Have your work cut out
- All in a day's work
- Donkey work
- Do their dirty work
- Noddy work
- Work the system
- Work like a charm
- Work your socks off
- Work your tail off
- Work your fingers to the bone
- All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
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