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📖 Определения и значения для слова idle

📒 not working hard

  • an idle student
  • He has had some down time recently, but he hasn't been idle.
  • She's not the sort of person to idle her time away.

📒 not in use

  • to lie/stand/remain idle
  • Half their machines are lying idle.
  • He did not let the factory become idle.

📒 without work

  • Over ten per cent of the workforce is now idle.
  • He never stayed idle for long.

📒 with no particular purpose or effect

  • idle chatter/curiosity
  • It was just an idle threat (= not serious).
  • It is idle to pretend that their marriage is a success.

📒 not spent doing work or something particular

  • In idle moments, he carved wooden figures.

📒 people who do not have enough to do often start to do wrong

  • She blamed the crimes on the local jobless teenagers. ‘The devil makes work for idle hands,’ she would say.
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