時間をもてあます

Japanese translation: too much time in her hands

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English term or phrase:	時間をもてあます
Japanese translation:	too much time in her hands
Entered by:	Kyoko Kakeshita

08:15 Nov 30, 2004

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English term or phrase: 時間をもてあます

As in "主婦は時間をもてあましていると考えている人が多いけれど". Thanks.

tanina

"too much time in her hands"

Explanation:
これが一番良く使われている言い回しです。
Please try this idiom with Google search.

Selected response from:

Kyoko Kakeshita
Local time: 06:09

Grading comment

Thank you all for aswering my question. I agree with Susan's answer but this time I'll go for Himelani's. Thanks.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +3

"Don't know what to do with one's free time"

kokuritsu

"too much time in her hands"

Kyoko Kakeshita

idle, idling

humbird

have time on one's hands

Takako Whilden

'don't know how to kill time'

cinefil

Discussion entries: 3

Answers

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

"Don't know what to do with one's free time"

Explanation:
I'd like to use the expression "not knowing what to do with one's free time"
in the context.

e.g. "Most homemakers (housewives) think they don't know what to do with their free time."

You can herein find a good example:
"A Nation out of Balance, Question 4" on the following Web site, et. al.

Reference: http://www.oneworld-onelife.org/workvsplay.html

kokuritsu
Local time: 06:09
Native speaker of:

Japanese
PRO pts in category: 7

1 hr confidence:

時間をもてあます 'don't know how to kill time'

Explanation:
just a suggestion

cinefil
Japan
Local time: 06:09
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Japanese
PRO pts in category: 28

9 hrs confidence:

時間をもてあます idle, idling

Explanation:
Idle is not necessarily lazy. When a 主婦 is 時間をもてあましている, she is idling. May be she doesn't know what to do with it, as kids are in kindergarden/schools, TV shows are boring, too little money for shopping, and volunteeing is too much. She has too much time but no resource to utilize it. Her talent and time are layed idle. That is idling.

humbird
Native speaker of:

Japanese,

English
PRO pts in category: 20

16 hrs confidence:

時間をもてあます

"too much time in her hands"

Explanation:
これが一番良く使われている言い回しです。
Please try this idiom with Google search.

Kyoko Kakeshita
Local time: 06:09
Native speaker of:

Japanese
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

Thank you all for aswering my question. I agree with Susan's answer but this time I'll go for Himelani's. Thanks.

23 hrs confidence:

時間をもてあます have time on one's hands

Explanation:
"Housemakers have time on their hands."

Takako Whilden
Local time: 06:09
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Japanese

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