make-work

If anything the work the two cops and the maintenance guy were doing deserves more respect and probably helped a lot more people.

Why, some might be asking, am I being so harsh on their work so soon after they died?

“I love my job and I love my city and I am committed to the work here,” he said in a statement.

So it might be me projecting my desires onto Archer to want to just get away from work for a few weeks.

Genetics alone does not an eating disorder make, generally speaking, and Bulik points out that environment still plays a role.

And to tell the truth, she couldn't help wishing he could see, so he could make the game livelier.

She did not need a great cook-book; She knew how much and what it took To make things good and sweet and light.

Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.

Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.

Give a sweet savour, and a memorial of fine flour, and make a fat offering, and then give place to the physician.