What does 'Devil finds work for idle hands' mean?
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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
Idioms similar to 'Devil finds work for idle hands'
- Idle hands are the devil's handiwork
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- Speak of the devil!
- Devil may care
- Let the devil take the hindmost
- Devil is in the detail
- Devil's advocate
- If you lie down with the Devil, you will wake up in hell
- Between the devil and the deep blue sea
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