America is a land of couch potatoes, where labor-saving devices do the physical work and computer games replace active sports.
He was a veritable labor-saving device in a striped uniform.
"They are very hard-working but they're not used to thinking in terms of labor-saving devices."
After all, a steam drill could be a valuable labor-saving device.
It is easy to sneer at labor-saving devices now, when they are everywhere.
At the same time, labor-saving devices made sweat ever scarcer.
Reproductive physiologists are hard at work today on that ultimate labor-saving device.
"I intended to use your army as a labor-saving device?"
These labor-saving devices are especially useful after you've been entertaining.
Special interests can generate campaign funds, but here they are basically labor-saving devices.
