idle man

I tell you, they had to stand to their tackle: there was no idle man aboard that ship, God knows.

He likes being in office because it gives him something to do; but he would never be an idle man.

Not that he was an idle man, but that he would not work at his oars in the only approved method of making progress for his boat.

Was I fancying myself a poet, only because I was an idle man, and had lost the woman I loved?

Then I might have been fit for the plaything of an idle man, but that time is past.