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Phrase(s): Idle people have the least leisure. [and] Idle folk have the least leisure.
Prov. If you are not energetic and hardworking, you will never have any free time, since you will have to spend all your time finishing your work. • My grandmother always told me not to dawdle, since idle people have the least leisure.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs