Webster's Online Dictionary
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Specialty Expressions: IDLE WORMS

ExpressionsDomainDefinition
Idle WormsLiterature1: Pricked from the lazy finger of a maid."
2: It was once supposed that little worms were bred in the fingers of idle servants. To this Shakespeare alludes -
3: "A round little worm
4: Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, 1. 4. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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