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at a loose end

at a loose end prepositional phrase: idle; bored.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (UK) 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.2021 August 25, Stefanie Foster, “Comment: A dumb way to die”, in RAIL, number 938, page 3

at a loose end meaning in Malayalam

at a loose end in Malayalam

unemployed, with nothing to do, unoccupied
പറയത്തക്ക തൊഴിലൊന്നുമില്ലാതെ, തൊഴിലില്ലാതെ, അവ്യാപൃത, ജോലിയിലേർപ്പെടാത്ത, ഒന്നുംചെയ്യാതിരിക്കുന്ന, ജോലിയില്ലാത്ത

Questions about at a loose end

What does at a loose end mean?
At a loose end means idle; bored.
What is at a loose end in Malayalam?
At a loose end in Malayalam is പറയത്തക്ക തൊഴിലൊന്നുമില്ലാതെ, തൊഴിലില്ലാതെ, അവ്യാപൃത. See At a loose end meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is at a loose end?
At a loose end is a prepositional phrase.

Words near at a loose end in the dictionary

  1. at a draught
  2. at a fast clip
  3. at a glance
  4. at a go
  5. at a guess
  6. at a loose end
  7. at a loss
  8. at a loss for words
  9. at a low ebb
  10. at a minimum
  11. at a moment's notice

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Adapted from Wiktionary: at a loose end (page history and authors); at a loose end (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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