a rolling stone (gathers no moss)
old-fashioned sayingDefinition
› said to mean that a person who is always travelling and changing jobs has the advantage of having no responsibilities, but also has disadvantages such as having no permanent place to live: Hal was a bit of a rolling stone before he married and settled down.Travellers and visitorsNomadic and alternative lifestyles
(Definition of a rolling stone (gathers no moss) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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