idle : Idioms & Phrases

• adjective satellite constitutionally lazy or idle
  bone-lazy.
  

WordNet

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

WordNet

• (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

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

WordNet

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

WordNet

• (Mach.), a gear wheel placed between two others, to transfer motion from one to the other without changing the direction of revolution.

Webster 1913

• 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

WordNet

I"dle-head`ed adjective

Definitions

1. Foolish; stupid. Obs. "The superstitious idle-headed eld." Shak.
2. Delirious; infatuated. Obs. L'Estrange.

Webster 1913

I"dle-pat`ed adjective

Definitions

1. Idle-headed; stupid. Obs.

Webster 1913

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

WordNet

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

Webster 1913