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Rattle around

verb, slang

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  1. 1
    To take up little space in a house or other building that one occupies; to live somewhere that is needlessly spacious. informal

    "His mother had died within a year after his return; his wife and newborn son, both from influenza, in 1916 when Francine was four. Now the two of them rattled around in the old house, even with his office and small clinic sharing the downstairs with the kitchen, parlor, and dining room."

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