Idle and Please

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Idle verb - To spend time doing nothing.

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Please and idle are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Please" instead a verb "Idle".

Nearby Words: idled, idleness, idler, idling, idly

Please verb - To give satisfaction to.

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Idle and please are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Idle" instead a verb "Please".

Nearby Word: pleased

When a person is born, they receive a specific amount of Time donated by their parents, which they can spend as they please as an idle Noble or earn through pseudo-capitalist enterprise.

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I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin: In The Singing Sands, the MacGuffin is an unfinished sonnet, which the protagonist, who used to write sonnets in school, takes with him out of idle interest, then considers finishing as a gesture to the dead person; as he studies it, he realizes it is a code.

Source: Creator / Josephine Tey

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