プログレッシブ和英中辞典(第4版)の解説
もてあます【持て余す】
((人が主語で)) find ((a thing)) unmanageable；((物が主語で)) be too much ((for one))
暇を持て余している
I don't know what to do with my free time.
彼は大きな体を持て余すようにぎこちなく歩いて行った
He walked away awkwardly as if his big body were more than he could manage.
彼女は子供を持て余していた
The children were 「too much of a handful for her [too much for her to handle].
その猿は持て余しものになった
The monkey became a nuisance.／The monkey got to be more than we could handle.