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between jobs

a. (context euphemistic English) unemployed.

Usage examples of "between jobs".

At any given time twenty or thirty would be around, and others came in and stayed for a while between jobs, and in the constant come and go they had a chance to carry on a more-or-less continuous conference on the state of things, with newcomers reporting what they had seen firsthand, and the rest arguing about what it meant.

Like every mucker or miner who had ever helped build a tunnel, he was broke between jobs.

I keep a smooth nylon sphere one centimeter in diameter in my pouch so that the pouch won't shrink between jobs.

Currently he is 'between jobs,' and the quarter's rent on his laboratory is due shortly.

He was ready for that-he was never not ready, for anything that might happen-but he would still regret the termination of this little slice of nontime, the lull and peace that came between jobs.