A lazy or idle person; a loafer.
Xiangzi was the only one whose hands were never idle.
But who, besides the very rich, or the very idle, can replicate the show's setup?
Again, given that businesses have plenty of idle structures and machines, why should they be building or buying even more?
It had been an idle and joyful celebration, but the quickening onset of dusk with its long-fingered and persecuting shadows provokes a sense of malaise.
(5) closing, leaving idle or dismantling installations or sites for the prevention and control of environmental pollution by solid waste without authorization;
A large ship, with three masts, lay becalmed on the water, with only one sail set; for not a breeze stiffed, and the sailors sat idle on deck or amongst the rigging.
The cowboy lives an idle life.
The messenger of duty however was not idle.
Note: Our test system was idle, with no other activity running, when we ran these tests.
September is a changeling busy as a squirrel in a hickory tree, idle as a languid brook.
Cynics, in questioning this belief, have imagined that the multiplication of officials must have left some of them idle or all of them able to work for shorter hours.
Ragweed pioneers idle fields.
Do not idle about like this and do something useful.
Combined with some modifications to the idle frequency, battery life does not suffer hugely.
If no thread is available, a new one is created, and then if the thread from the pool is idle for 60 seconds, it goes away.
When fault analyzer is loaded manually, it processes any new crashes in the databases, and then terminates; it does not remain idle waiting for the next crash to be delivered.
An idle whim, I fear, Sir, 'was my answer;' or else an idle whim is going to spirit me away.
Having canceled X-ray scan, the cancerous candidate on the canvas ate the idle candles in the candy can.
Article 20 It is forbidden to close down, leave idle or dismantle, without authorization, installations or places for the prevention and control of environmental pollution by industrial solid waste.
Another thing that I often do is to use this idle time as thinking time.
"Not qualified to do that, you know. Just sitting idle at home. I haven't touched the pen for ages, as a matter of fact.
I sit there in idle, and I edit some code.
The idle sorrow is in the sound of water, like smoke. Floating in the rain rhyme, like fog. The Mongolian, if there is no, it is difficult to dismiss.
The government of President Lee Myung-bak has not been idle since it stared over the abyss in 2008, however.
I could sit idle all through a Sunday morning and look at her.
Find an inactive agent from the idle agents pool and then pass the connection or transaction request to that agent for servicing.
The master said: "You wicked and lazy and idle servant!...
This is not an idle concern.
