How To Use Idle In A Sentence

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. Victor Hugo
It did in fact return many idled workers to the work force and created a good deal of useful infrastructure but that was then, this is now. Matthew Yglesias » Where is the Jobs Strategy?
I might have understood how clumsy I was, when I was rearing my children in the most utter idleness and luxury, to reform other people and their children, who were perishing from idleness in what I called the den of the Rzhanoff house, where, nevertheless, three-fourths of the people toil for themselves and for others. What to Do?
He wears his cap backwards and spits rhymes with fierce energy and unbridled theatrics. The Harvard Crimson :: News
She's so relaxed in behind but idles as soon as she hits the front.

Idleness is the key of beggary, and the root of all evil.
Men are left idle when machines break down.
This appears to have led to his death after he lost control of a scooter on a bridleway above the Wharfe's steep banks near his home. Jimi Heselden obituary
Os ydy'r drefn yn cael ei mabwysiadu un o'r dewisiadau pwysicaf fydd penderfynu p'un ai i ganiatáu i bobol pleidleisio "uwchben y lein" sef y drefn sy'n cael ei defnyddio yn Awstralia. BBC Blog Network
It is the other side of a public bridle path and almost overgrown with vicious brambles. Times, Sunday Times
Along the well-marked bridleway, he swung his jacket over his shoulder, neither hut, barn, nor building visible. THE OPEN DOOR
The forwards also seemed intent on glory as several rolling mauls were stopped dead in their tracks when the wingers were standing idle and unmarked on the flanks.
Engines usually idle slower and are sluggish to respond until they warm up.
Ryan Klesko sat Wednesday, his smoldering bat idled by a sore right wrist.
One drawing, dated 1768, shows a short-legged lidless partitioned square box, and another, dated 1769, shows an octagonal lidded container on short legs partitioned to hold eight bottles.
Under the condition of permission the idle insert, a job sequence was determined, which minimize the maximum earliness.
I realise now that I was idle in doing research in these years because of the pressure of teaching and other business to which I was not accustomed.
There were legions of zombie idlers in the malls, the dead and gutted malls with high vacancy rates that wouldn't be resolved anytime soon.
Vary the story to take in the white collar worker, the ice man let out with the coming of the frigidaire, the clerk displaced for the young graduate, vary it to include, if you will, the "chiseller" and the exploiter, but remembering that suffering, need, idleness and despair play their own part in turning the man who cannot work into the man who will not work. Canada's Problems in Relief and Assistance
One day should be spent visiting some of the key vineyards, so I took advantage of the Discovery Pass and idled away two agreeable afternoons visiting Margaux and St Emilion.
Not that I've outgrown New York, were that even possible, but in idle moments I have found myself combing property ads for old watermills and converted stables.
She bridled at his suggestion to elope
So she sware to him that she would not do him any hurt or ensorcell him, and bidding bring him a fine horse, saddled and bridled with a golden bridle and decked with trappings all of gold set with jewels, gave the old man a thousand dinars saying, Use this.’’ The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Robin Hood, the latest depiction of folklore's most enduring and filmable character — directed by Ridley Scott and starring Russell Crowe — will open the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday and in theaters on Friday. Robin Hood's fluid identity flows on
However that is all idle speculation now as I have been duly called and plans have been duly made.
The decision made, he turned and swaggered out of the door, idle hands swinging and dangling as he strode manfully toward the stairwell.
But there was no apparent reason for anybody to harbour idle curiosity about this particular backwater. THE LAST TEMPTATION
But this is an idle boast if police are forced to abandon one set of law breakers to chase after another.
They are too busy for idle chatter. Times, Sunday Times
He could not however bridle his tongue -- he pronounced the word rascal with great emphasis; said he deserved to be hanged more than a highwayman, and wished he had the scourging him. Joseph Andrews, Volume 2
Boats fostered unusually intimate encounters because of the enforced idleness of travel and because of their physical isolation.
All day the eye of the sky bulges, lidless and forgiving until darkness comes to roost undisturbed in its lashes.
I also wonder about Depp and depth, or rather Depp and range, two elements consistently missing in his performances, bridled as they are by a post-Warholian lack of affect or commitment. Johnny Depp is back as a very different Hunter S Thompson
The classical economist Von Hayek, who authored On the road to serfdom, warned about such interference by government in the economic order which can culminate the unbridle manipulation and pollution of the economic system. Emerging economies must reject handouts and bailouts capitalism
It is certainly not a convincing retort to point out that: the argument is inconsistent with the existence of a Board having powers as specified under Section 11 of the Broadcasting Act. However, in assenting to the Act, Parliament either did not know what it was doing; or was making an idle gesture, not expecting the Board to promulgate any regulations respecting standards of programs, the character of advertising, the amount of time that may be devoted to advertising, and other matters specifically referred to, in the Act; or as I believe to be much more likely, Parliament consciously denied the argument that broadcasting can be left to the normal criteria and judgments of the market place. A High Standard
He finally sickened of the endless round of parties and idle conversation.
Idleness is the root (or mother) of all evil (or sin or vice).
To see a stand of mature red beech and also kowhai, fuchsia and rata trees choose Bob's Cove Bridle Track, a walk that takes 1.5 hours.
Call me an idle sybarite, but I value this capability.
I idled up beside him, lighting a cigarette (my parents figured I'd be smoking anyway even if they told me not to, so they didn't really care), asking him what the problem was.
No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.A young idler, an old beggar.
The switch position of each antenna element is programmed for optimum reception during, for example, an idle mode which receives a pilot signal.
-- They lived together; and when Dr. Grant had brought on apoplexy and death, by three great institutionary dinners in one week, they still lived together; for Mary, though perfectly resolved against ever attaching herself to a younger brother again, was long in finding among the dashing representatives, or idle heir apparents, who were at the command of her beauty, and her 20_000L. any one who could satisfy the better taste she had acquired at Mansfield, whose character and manners could authorise a hope of the domestic happiness she had there learnt to estimate, or put Edmund Bertram sufficiently out of her head. Mansfield Park
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Flaming Bridle was subsequently disqualified and placed last in the field of eight.
That's the space all this idle gear fills. Times, Sunday Times
But the severity of even a fully penetrant condition like Huntington's disease seems to depend on not just genetic factors like the number of DNA repeats in the mutation but epigenetic factors like the sex of the parent who transmitted the mutation (Ridley et al. 1991). The Human Genome Project
It has already sold its citrus business in Florida and disposed of idle properties in California.
I look down on those who eat the bread of idleness.
I will keep my car off bridle paths if she'll keep her horse off the roads. Times, Sunday Times
Utilizing otherwise-idle resources, defragmentation occurs whenever and wherever possible so that performance is constantly maintained, and there is never a negative performance impact from defrag. Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
Am I to go about smiling and content with all this talk about you, passing from one idle gossip to another? Wives and Daughters
Not if you're bridle-wise, Captain Selwyn," she returned sweetly. The Younger Set
Ridley's goal is to demolish this view and explain why Galton's nature / nurture dichotomy is erroneous.
I ask you to cherish her unbridled passion for ideas and to tolerate her tenacity in following questions to satisfying conclusions.
Sydney Carton , idlest and most unpromising of men, was Stryver's great ally.
As someone who's always found Bob Dylan amusing and kind of absurd, I guffawed (at 3 a.m.; scared the opossums) at Idle's startling transformation into ol 'Uncle Bobby, strummin' and harpin 'and bleatin' nearly incomprehensibly about Brian's theme of "Individuals. Gregory Weinkauf: Not the Messiah: Monty Python Strikes Again!
But I saw that fiction--he pronounced the word gingerly, as though it were something dangerous--is perhaps not, as I had thought, merely an inducement to idleness and wicked fancy. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
Nissan has idled four of its five Japanese assembly plants this week because it is running short of a key engine control unit suppled by a division of Gadget Appetite Strains Suppliers
He said he plans to race his new filly, who was consigned by Bridlewood Farm.
We may be about to witness the total eclipse of a domineering political clique after 13 years of unbridled power. The Sun
They will head off to explore the network of ancient trails and bridleways that cross the valleys and hilltops.
Many were idle now, but some still turned, and it didn't need a hradani's ears to hear the sounds of hammers, saws, chisels, and other tools coming from the large brick buildings clustered about them.
The idleness and overcrowding led to rioting in four state prisons in 1985 that left an inmate dead.
Florence write and establish their final condemnation of noblesse living by rapine, those 'Ordinamenti della Giustizia,' which practically excluded all idle persons from government, and determined that the priors, or leaders of the State, should be priors, or leaders of its arts and productive labour; that its head 'podesta' or 'power' should be the standard-bearer of justice; and its council or parliament composed of charitable men, or good men: "boni viri," in the sense from which the French formed their noun 'bonte.' Val d'Arno
So Parliament offers no forum for considered debate and no brake on the unbridled ambition of an unscrupulous Prime Minister.
The reins were secured by chain-work, and the front-stall of the bridle was a steel plate, with apertures for the eyes and nostrils, having in the midst a short, sharp pike, projecting from the forehead of the horse like the horn of the fabulous unicorn. The Talisman
Their friendship was turned to enmity through idle gossip.
Albany recoils from the savage ethos in which his wife lives, foreseeing both her own destruction and that of the universe itself as a consequence of unbridled self-interest.
We followed a pleasant bridle path through trees and soon found ourselves listening to the sweet bubbling song of a black cap.
Page 36 serve for the resort and refuge of masterles men and other idle and evill dispozed persons, and are the cause of cozenages, thefts, and other dishonest conversacion and may also be used to cover dangerous practizes. Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Jessica A. Browner
Minimise idle cash balances by banking money quickly and seeking best investment rates.
There is, of course, no chance of a similar ban on trains to prevent idle chatterers driving the rest of us round the twist
This is not an idle threat. Times, Sunday Times
On nuclear weapons, the Iranian president deplores what he calls unbridled expansion and testing of more powerful warheads, apparently implicating the United States. CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2006
The Jag blocked the whole alleyway, barely leaving enough room for someone to sidle past it. DEAD BEAT
After a period of enforced idleness, she found a new job.
The pot hadn't bin idle all the time; it kep 'bilin' away, pottle, wottle, pottle, wottle. Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters
It breeds more trouble, more neglect, more idleness, more rascality, more stealing, & more lieing up in the quarters & more everything that is wrong on a plantation than all else put together . . . A Renegade History of the United States
Bridle paths are replaced by motorable roads; new bus services affect life in previously remote hill areas; the resulting mass tourism poses a grave threat to the environment and contacts with the outside world change local culture.
With the state industrial sector largely idle, many citizens reportedly rely on state asset stripping, hoarding, trading and personal farm plots to survive.
At length, however, after much debating, it was determined that arms should yield to the gown, or rather, the horse to the orator -- with this precaution, that the monture should be properly secured, by an attendant to hold the bridle. A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part I. 1792 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
System bleidleisio "teg", atebolrwydd mewn llywodraeth leol, system ffederal, sefydliadau rhyngwladol i ddiogelu hawliau sifil, rhyddid barn a mynegiant - mae'r rhain i gyd yn bethau y gellid ei ystyried yn hanfodol ddemocrataidd. BBC Blog Network
For example, we have mitre halving in Fig. 34, a mitre bridle joint in Fig. 74, a tongued and grooved mitre in Fig. 116, mitred mortise and tenon joints in Figs. 148 and 159, a dowelled mitre frame in Fig. 202, and a mitred dovetail in Fig. 286. Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used.
Her new owners said the only remaining evidence of her old life had been a fear of having a bridle bit placed in her mouth.
Out of the side streets opposite the jail they came by scores, drawn for the most part by idle and morbid curiosity.
Anyone who thinks he is a ‘bridle’ horse should have a look at the Cheltenham bumper last year.
Even when carrying out needful tasks, do not let your intellect be idle but keep it meditating inwardly and praying.
Shortly after my wife left for her evening walk, Zachery sidled up to me furtively.
She was the first to ride astride a horse into the hills when few women were riding at all, and those who dared were riding English side-saddle on the Golden Gate Park bridle paths. Charmian London and Dog Possum
Ridley's treatment of the role of inheritance in the determination of intelligence and, more generally, of personality, will be for many readers the touchstone by which his book is judged.
As worms are bred in a stagnant pool, so are evil thoughts in idleness.
We have liaised with the community to open up sections of bridleways.
Idleness is the root of all evil.
There was more speech amongst the Danes, and movement of horses, and jingling of bridle bits.
It capped a memorable first season in charge for Wetheriggs manager Andrew Ridley, his assistant Bob Norman and coach Paul Renwick.
He didn't want to waste valuable time in idle gossip.
It was idle curiosity that made me ask.
He stumbled along the bridleway, wiping his eyes, pulling himself together. LOST SUMMER
Like sun and sand, sangria still sums up for many those idle summer days spent on holiday in Spain. Times, Sunday Times
Lake District National Park Authority rangers will be on their bikes and inviting guests to join them as they explore cycle tracks and bridleways around the area on Monday.
Expansion of the money supply in these circumstances may lead to no additional expenditure, only additional idle balances.
Monney had never seen a sea turtle before Dec. 17, when he caught a glimpse of the leatherback — estimated weight 1, 700 pounds — and an olive ridley the same night.
I cannot afford to leave the land lying idle .
When his joy had a little subsided, he stepped into the sea; ten miles at the first stride, which brought him midleg deep; and ten miles at the second, when the water came just above his knees; and ten miles more at the third, by which he was immersed nearly to his waist. Myths That Every Child Should Know A Selection Of The Classic Myths Of All Times For Young People
The evening sunlight dappled through the leaves, casting shards of light onto the bridle paths.
May there be some clear little stream just behind you, laughing along its idle way; -- some chirping birds, singing their roundelay -- some buzzing flies -- you will then be lulled into doziness. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 266, July 28, 1827
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If you idlers must know, I woke up at dawn, began my five-mile run, followed by the usual regiment of calisthenics…
This financial bonfire is our Reichtag fire, and our real Fuhrer, Paulson, is requesting emergency dictatorial powers to save the nation from nonexistent, unbridled capitalism. The Highway Robber State « Antiwar.com Blog
The courtiers joke and idle and cross their legs in the lacquered wood waiting rooms. Times, Sunday Times
'She can't keep her attention fixed on anything, not even on her prayers, and what she calls piety I should call idleness. The Lake
He was neither a prude nor a Puritan, but he was scornful of self-indulgence, and though he earned a reputation as the champion of the poor, it was only of the deserving and never of the idle.
She felt the horse's anticipation, and decided to unbridle him early and let him run.
This feeling is our superessential blessedness, which is a fruition of God and all His beloved: and this blessedness is that Dark Quiet which ever abides in idleness. The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage
The tone is established early on; broad strokes of unbridled praise for friends, co-workers and pets, a breathless, accelerative pace and an embarrassment of exclamation marks.
Guards' keys jangled as you passed the idle silence and time of your life rotting away.
They are too busy for idle chatter. Times, Sunday Times
An idle brain is the devil’s workshop.
On Monday they will head off to explore the extensive network of ancient trails and bridleways that cross the valleys and hilltops.
I unhooked Glory from the crossties and took his halter off, before placing his bridle on and adjusting the straps.
Not that he was absolutely idle, or averse to business then; far from it.
Her crew were idle so she armed them with brushes and mops and set them to scrub the magnificent monument clean.
It is a theme that replicated itself across the mountains with the mercilessness of the parasitic beast in Ridley Scott's Alien, consuming its host forest and moving on to fresh ground.
We live in a knowledge-based economy, in which educated workers bridle at commands and demand autonomy.
Its mane and forelock were thick and black as well, and its deep brown eyes stared happily at Tam as she got the bridle from a hook in the stall.
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Among these colts was a three-year-old that had never been shod and was scarcely bridle-wise. The valley campaigns : being the reminiscences of a non-combatant while between the lines in the Shenandoah Valley during the war of the states,
Three months later, his burros, a bridle and halter, and candy wrappers were found in Davis Gulch, an offshoot of Escalante Canyon.
The crystal eyes were lidless; in lieu of a nose, there were two sockets that plugged into the nostril tubes of the silver face; the mouth, little more than a slit, was slightly open, exposing tattooed teeth.
Only fifteen women, a smaller percentage than that of men, reported that they were idle or had no occupation.
Idleness," says Burton, in that delightful old book "The Anatomy of Melancholy," "is the bane of body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, the chief mother of all mischief, one of the seven deadly sins, the devil's cushion, his pillow and chief reposal ... How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success
They spent the rest of the day in idle talk and dozing off when their exhaustion caught up to them.
Carry the youth to the presence, and I will remain here, with bridle in hand, ready to strike the spurs up to the rowel-heads, in case the hawk flies my way. — The Abbot
Idleness is the root (or mother) of all evil (or sin or vice).
Like rustiness, idleness consume more body energies than work.
We idle into forest cul-de-sacs, where big cypress boles emerge from dark water.
It is probably idle to speculate about what that situation will be, but perhaps not unreasonable to point out that it could still be in some sort of equipoise.
It is not idle sales chatter. Times, Sunday Times
During idle moments I read medical journals such as the Australian Women's Weekly.
Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
While most youthful tyros either head across the Atlantic or idle uncomfortably on the benches of domestic clubs, Horne took matters into his own hands to accelerate his learning curve.
Estrin's novel, titled The Lamentations of Julius Marantz (Unbridled Books, 2007), twists the rapture into a comic conspiracy of the right wing US government and the Sierra Club (among others) designed to rid the government of its leftist and Islamic enemies, end the leak in the ozone, and consolidate the government's right wing political base. Marc Estrin Takes on the Rapture in The Lamentations of Julius Marantz
They sidled up to the guards, letting their cloaks loosen to let them get an eyeful.
Areas within the pheasant management counties that contain adequate winter cover such as cattail and shrub-carr marshes, well established native prairie fields, and areas with 15 percent or more of the landscape in idle grassland will have the highest pheasant densities. Undefined
She never lifts a finger to help. She's bone idle.
Idle folks lack no excuses.
Unbridled teenage gumption as practiced in the U.S., it seems, is the answer to all problems.
Why waste paper? and you can save some money too by going paperless, and it doesn't effect TNR's bottom line to do so (except for the Printers themselves, which I am sure TNR contracts out, unless Foer is manning the Heidleberg right now, and Chait does layout and Cohn the makeready when they are not blogging) The New Republic - All Feed
There was a ribbon hanging under her chin which the old lady called a bridle, and when Glenloch Girls
Even idle speculation may not be quite valueless if it is recognized for what it is.
Theo slipped the bridle onto the horse, and leaned over, picking the book up.
Artists are sitting idle. Times, Sunday Times
Dudeism, a quasi-religion based upon the teachings of the film's antihero The Dude, has been the result of its slow-burn success and this event brings its founder Oliver Benjamin to the Idler magazine's west London slacker school for a debate on tenpin bowling, naps and kicking back. This week's new events
He saddled and bridled Ebony, untied the halter, and led his horse carefully through the trees.
Nicephorus and Leo, triumphed over the Saracens, the hours which the emperor owed to his people were consumed in strenuous idleness. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
the rumor had its origin in idle gossip
The dean bridled with anger at my request.
You know how one tends to bridle when anyone offers criticism, especially constructive criticism? Times, Sunday Times
This may bring to the enterprise some negative effects such as letting capital lie idle, lowering the profit, undermining the morale, disturbing the development plan, affecting the image and so on.
Soon after, a saddled and bridled chestnut horse came striding into view.
Interesting, Orphan thought as she sidled around the corner of her hovel to the stone outcropping that crowned the Oracle's cavern. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
Don't mind other's idle gossip! Like an upright tower, never tile to one side in the storm wind.
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And he asked me a lot of very pertinent questions which seemed to me more than idle curiosity.
Leanne likes to sing and recently performed a breathtaking rendition of Bette Midler's ‘Wind Beneath My Wings’ at her friend's wedding.
Golf, now justly cried down by our laws, {2} as the mother of cursing and idleness, mischief and wastery, of which game, as I verily believe, the devil himself is the father. A Monk of Fife
Therefore, Thomas said to Francis on a day when they had looked at the sea and eaten the shrimps, ‘My mind misgives me, Goodchild, that you go to Maryport, like the boy in the story-book, to ask IT to be idle with you.’ The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
They were infamous rumour mongers because they overheard a lot of idle chatter at the latrines.
An idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Saying ‘statistically, no’ is supposed to hint that the statistics may well be a fictitious construct, some idle confection of brainiacs and number-crunchers with little real referent.
I unfortunately lost the pictures of his very slick bridles, but he has created two aerotow bridles from Spectra and Vectran lines in thicknesses used for shroud lines on parachutes.
All bridoon bits shown above are permitted either as a snaffle or as part of a double bridle.
shiftless idle youth
These symbols of solidarity circumscribe the Amish world and bridle the forces of assimilation.
There is also a beautiful park with lakes, bridle paths and a wildlife reserve. The Sun
The rest has been left idle, used as grazing land, or intermittently cropped.
Alternatively, it can be switched on when the engine is idle, to heat the car interior.
‘A pretty story,’ he said flippantly as he unsaddled his horse and threw saddle and bridle to the ground.
Subsequently, the duke joins in on the masquerade, play-acting the threat of sexual violence against Zidler - a rehearsal for his actions later in the film.
all the random mingling and idle talk made him hate literary parties
All week, Glenn Beck has been railing against what he called the unbridled consumption of America. CNN Transcript May 25, 2006
There is a horse-riding centre and 30 miles of bridle paths. Times, Sunday Times
'In the meane space,' he continues, 'for the avoyding of idlenesse (the very mother and nourice of all vices) I have among other my travayles bene occupied aboute thys little Treatyse, wherein is sette forth the vilenesse and basenesse of worldely things whiche commonly withdrawe us from heavenly and spirituall matters.' A Biography of Edmund Spenser
Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. "An idle mind is the devil's workshop. And the devil's name is Alzheimer's.
I noticed horses had been using it - tut-tut, it's a footpath not a bridleway.
[1358] Because every idle word brings harm both to the soul of the man who speaks idly and to those who listen to such idle speaking; for it withdraws them from God the Word, Who is incomplex. My Life in Christ, or Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God
Bennington was handsome, and, but for his father's blood, the idleness of his forebears would have marked him with effeminateness. Half a Rogue
Sorry no photos there, cos it was during one of my initial maidless days, which was quite chaotic. Allthingspurple
He constantly pondered upon the possibilities through which his friend might be freed from the shackles that bound him to the effeminate serfdom of idleness; but the magic that could unrivet those fetters had not yet been revealed. Fairy Fingers A Novel
McClernand's unbridled ambition is no different from that displayed by some senior officers today.
Efficiency comes from diligence. In shortage in the play ground transportation into Si, was destroyed by the idler.
Two other monuments to conspicuous wealth that lie just across a small bridge will make you yearn for the life of the idle rich.
In that sense it is a two-edged sword, because some members of the opposition are just as idle and incompetent as some of those in government.
The dissonance between the winterish associations of oranges at home, and the soft, warm evening air in San José was as pleasant as anything I can remember, surfacing an idle longing for clove-studded peel drying in the stove, for chilled orange segments with Medjoul dates, ginger and clotted cream and slow mornings of coffee and oranges. Coffee and Oranges
The artistry of the conman is given an enticing makeover by Sir Ridley Scott in Matchstick Men, an ingenious little crime caper which functions on many levels.
idle, unconstrained gossip
Mountain peaks are brown instead of white, lakes are drying up and hydroelectric dams sit idle. Times, Sunday Times
It is important to remember that logical consequences are never to be used as an idle threat.

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