‘Woolgathering’ and other not-so-idle pursuits
by Melissa Mohr
Jul 11, 2022
2 minutes
A person who is is idly daydreaming. Someone has nothing in particular to do. Folk etymology holds that these two idioms, which in different ways imply inattention to more important tasks, arose from the same situation – someone assigning busywork to others, to prevent them from
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