These include flotsam and jetsam, frills and furbelows, and thick and fast.
That does not mean that they are out of work or are flotsam or jetsam, it is the nature of their employment; that is all.
It has left its concrete flotsam and jetsam, some of which is being cleared by public funds—about £200,000 was spent on this last year.
There is no doubt that this tide in human affairs carries with it a certain amount of flotsam and jetsam we would rather be without.
The men employed then were the flotsam and jetsam of the industry, men not physically capable of doing an ordinary day's work.
If they are in employment they move with the tide and seem tragically destined to become the flotsam and jetsam of a later day.
We prefer to use our prisons as social dustbins into which we can dump all the flotsam and jetsam of society.
These labourers are the flotsam and jetsam of industry.
