at loose ends

In an unsettled or uncertain situation. For example, This whole visit has left me feeling restless, constantly at loose ends, or Jane couldn't find a job this year and so is at loose ends for the summer. [Mid-1800s]

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While a few extra characters are left at loose ends and therefore feel extraneous, those aren’t necessary for the communication of the central ideas of class warfare and hypocrisy.

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So much so that when Lourdes Lopez, the director of Miami City Ballet, reached out to him, eager to help a Ukrainian dancer at loose ends, he hesitated.

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One blazing afternoon in the summer of 1973, Rudy Calvo found himself at loose ends.

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Affleck also seems completely at loose ends here.

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On the surface it looks like it’s about a young man at loose ends who becomes a handyman to earn a little money, but really it’s about how a person becomes an artist.

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at long last ATM

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