Idiom
rolling stone
Meaning
A person who moves around a lot and never settles down; a vagrant.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He's a rolling stone who never stays in one city.”
“She lived in six countries in ten years — a real rolling stone with no permanent home.”
“The old man, a rolling stone who had crossed three continents and loved a dozen women, finally returned to the village of his birth to die.”
Examples
simple
“He's a rolling stone who never stays in one city.”
contextual
“She lived in six countries in ten years — a real rolling stone with no permanent home.”
complex
“The old man, a rolling stone who had crossed three continents and loved a dozen women, finally returned to the village of his birth to die.”
Origin
From the proverb a rolling stone gathers no moss.
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