out-of-a-job

Updated: May 13, 2025

More than that, you are loosening the tendrils that hold you to the institution, and the first high wind that happens along, you will be uprooted and blown away in the blizzard's track and probably you will never know why. The letter only says, "Times are dull and we regret there is not enough work," et cetera. Everywhere you will find these out-of-a-job fellows.

Elbert Hubbard - Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning: How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the: Least Possible Harm to Others