idle : Idioms & Phrases


bone-idle

  • adjective satellite constitutionally lazy or idle
    bone-lazy.
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Idle pulley

  • noun a pulley on a shaft that presses against a guide belt to guide or tighten it
    idle wheel; idle pulley.
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  • (Mach.), a pulley that rests upon a belt to tighten it; a pulley that only guides a belt and is not used to transmit power.
Webster 1913

idle talk

  • noun idle or foolish and irrelevant talk
    prattle; chin music; prate; blether.
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Idle wheel

  • noun a pulley on a shaft that presses against a guide belt to guide or tighten it
    idle wheel; idle pulley.
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  • (Mach.), a gear wheel placed between two others, to transfer motion from one to the other without changing the direction of revolution.
Webster 1913

idle words

  • noun empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
    jazz; nothingness; malarky; malarkey; wind.
    • that's a lot of wind
    • don't give me any of that jazz
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idle-headed

I"dle-head`ed adjective
Definitions
  1. Foolish; stupid. Obs. "The superstitious idle-headed eld." Shak.
  2. Delirious; infatuated. Obs. L'Estrange.
Webster 1913

idle-pated

I"dle-pat`ed adjective
Definitions
  1. Idle-headed; stupid. Obs.
Webster 1913

idler pulley

  • noun a pulley on a shaft that presses against a guide belt to guide or tighten it
    idle wheel; idle pulley.
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In idle

  • in vain. Obs. "God saith, thou shalt not take the name of thy Lord God in idle."
Webster 1913