1. The devil finds work for idle hands to do. 

2. Idle young, needy age [old].

3. Idle folks have most labour.

4. An idle soul shall suffer hunger. 

5. Idle folks have the least leisure. 

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6. An idle person is the devil’s cusion. 

7. The tongue of idle persons is never idle. 

8. Idle folks lack no excuses.

9. An idle brain is the devil’s workshop. 

10. A young man idle, an old man needy. 

11. An idle youth, a needy age. 

12. Satan always finds work for idle hands. 

13. If the devil finds a man idle, he’ll set him to work. 

14. Idle young, needy old.

15. Idle people [folks] have the most labour [take the most pains]. 

16. Half these factories now stand idle.

17. She's a great one for idle gossip .

18. Many people were idle during the depression.

19. Men are left idle when machines break down.

20. Don't idle away your time.

21. It was just an idle threat .

22. I don't know why I asked—just idle curiosity.

23. He did not idle away his entire vacation.

24. It's foolish to idle away one's precious time.

25. I can't afford to be idle.

26. Time is life and when the idle man kills time,he kills himself.

27. Idle such as vinegar, can soften the spirit of the calcareous; diligent like alcohol, can burn the flame of wisdom.

28. She never lifts a finger to help. She's bone idle.

29. To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.

30. 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.

1. A young man idle, an old man needy.

2. Half these factories now stand idle.

3. She's a great one for idle gossip .

4. Men are left idle when machines break down.

5. Don't idle away your time.

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6. It was just an idle threat .

7. I don't know why I asked—just idle curiosity.

8. He did not idle away his entire vacation.

9. It's foolish to idle away one's precious time.

10. I can't afford to be idle.

11. She never lifts a finger to help. She's bone idle.

12. Employees have been idle almost a month because of shortages.

13. It is idle to speculate what the consequences would have been.

14. You are not supposed to idle about at this hour.

15. It is idle to pretend that their marriage is a success.

16. I cannot afford to leave the land lying idle .

17. The passenger's idle thoughts were backgrounded by the drone of the plane's engines.

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

19. Mike doesn't study at all. Instead, he sits idle all day.

31. 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.

32. Employees have been idle almost a month because of shortages.

33. It is idle to speculate what the consequences would have been.

34. You are not supposed to idle about at this hour.

35. It is idle to pretend that their marriage is a success.

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36. I cannot afford to leave the land lying idle .

37. Some unseen fingers, like an idle breeze, are playing upon my heartthe music of the ripples.

38. The passenger's idle thoughts were backgrounded by the drone of the plane's engines.

39. He flicked a switch and let the boat idle.

40. Their friendship was turned to enmity through idle gossip.

41. In idle moments, he carved wooden figures.

42. She had no time for idle gossip .

43. Idle thoughts floated through his mind.

44. I wish you'd stop wasting time in idle chatter.

45. Don't listen to idle tales.

46. It would be idle to argue further.

47. It's idle to expect help from him.

48. This is no idle threat.

49. Go and wake up that idle brother of yours.

50. The pumps are standing idle.

51. Almost half of the workforce are now idle.

52. The land was left idle for years.

53. Now the machine is lying idle.

54. He indulged in idle fancy.

55. 'Why do you ask?' 'Oh[], just idle curiosity' .

56. It was idle curiosity that made me ask.

57. The teacher flayed the idle students.

58. Get out of bed , you idle slob!

59. These machines have lain idle since the factory closed.

60. It was more of an idle threat than anything.

61. They idle away the hours watching TV.

62. The factory machines lay idle during the workers' strike.

63. Half their machines are lying idle.

64. She's too fond of idle gossip.

65. You shouldn't listen to idle gossip.

66. If you have an idle moment,(http:///idle.html) call me.

67. I don't like all this idle gossip.

68. The earth-moving trucks and cement mixers lay idle.

69. That boy is really idle.

70. He never does any exercise - he's bone idle.

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

72. 'Making knowledge work' is the university's phrase, and it is no idle boast .

73. The workers have been idle for the last six months.

74. Her claim that she could beat us all was clearly no idle / empty boast .

75. How much trouble in this life is caused by idle talk!

76. Ragweed pioneers idle fields.

77. His words were just idle threats; You don't have to take them too seriously.

78. Mr. Lorry had been idle a lo and had just poured out his last glassful of wine complete an appearance of satisfaction as is ever to be found in an elderly gentleman of a fresh complexion who has got to the end of a bottle, when a rattling of wheels came up the narrow street, and rumbled into the inn-yard.

79. He finally sickened of the endless round of parties and idle conversation.

80. An idle person will never find or understand real happiness.

81. It's crazy to have £7000 sitting idle in the bank.

82. It was only from idle curiosity that she went into the barn.

83. He's just bone idle.

84. Mike doesn't study at all. Instead, he sits idle all day.

85. Brian kept up the idle chatter for another five minutes.

86. The whole team stood idle , waiting for the mechanic.

87. It would be idle to deny that great progress was made.

88. She was not a woman to make idle threats .

89. The kids took no notice of the teacher's idle threats.

90. We spent many idle hours just sitting in the sun.

91. Over ten per cent of the workforce is now idle.

92. Contact with realities indisposed him to any more idle speculations.

93. He didn't want to waste valuable time in idle gossip.

94. In contrast to similar services in France and Germany, Intercity rolling stock is very rarely idle.

95. Let no one accuse us of idle posturing.

95. Wish you will love and make progress everyday!

96. Grant cuts the engine right back to idle.

97. She's a great one for idle gossip though.

98. Its airplane manufacturing plants largely are idle.

99. Cars and pickups and vans idle around him.

100. Painting is a favorite hobby of the idle rich.

101. The factory has been idle since May.

102. Perhaps it was nothing more than idle curiosity.

103. Most of them are idle, work-shy, good-for-nothing.

104. People simply hold the additional money as idle balances.

105. The devil makes work for idle hands. 30.

106. But he had no time for idle speculation.

107. Most of the factory stood idle during the strike.

108. Believe me, this is not idle chatter.

109. GM announced it would idle four assembly plants.

110. Idle hands and heads breed mischief.

111. Inactivity turns desires into idle fantasies.

112. It's not just idle curiosity.

113. Hundreds of workers sat idle on the factory floor waiting for the assembly line to start again.

114. The projected increases come largely because farmers will no longer have to idle acres in order to participate in federal programs.

115. He wanted to idle along the embankments and see the flowers growing in the coarse grass.

116. The world divided into the idle rich and the labouring poor.

117. Due to the strike, many of GM's factories stood idle.

118. I have sometimes whiled away idle moments in speculating how far one could elaborate this figure before the reader became suspicious.

119. Why is millions of pounds worth of state-of-the-art equipment lying idle?

120. It may well be argued that any attempt at locating sUch a remote people is itself an idle one.

121. And having lost our zeal for the idle etchings of some bored buckaroo, we slink off into the shade.

122. If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle. Samuel Johnson 

123. The area is dependent on fishing and farming, yet the fishing boats lie idle in the sand.

124. Almost half the skilled workers in this country are now idle.

125. Jess shivered, looking down at the upturned faces that stared at her with idle curiosity.

126. I knew it was just idle threats, but a lot wouldn't have - they'd have been distraught.

127. Sovereigns are born for an active life, and not for an idle or contemplative existence.

128. Wake up that idle young brother of yours and tell him it's time for school!

129. Scientology is a cereal-box religion, and reading Ron is an idle diversion that quickly becomes annoying.

130. Is it simply a transfer from the customer's bank account to building society account of money that was lying idle?

131. The small fleet of Amantani boats with their distinctive green plumb-line idle there.

132. Market loans reduce the volume of idle cash held by banks.

133. It is not altogether idle to speculate about what seems to be driving the private ambivalence and the public controversy.

134. Environment spokesman Jack Straw said ￡5 billion was lying idle while thousands were forced to sleep on the streets.

135. Under the Conservation Reserve Program, farmers are guaranteed rental payments to idle sensitive crop land.

136. He was one of Ibn Fayoud's colts and apparently bone idle.

137. That husband of hers is bone idle. No wonder the house is such a mess.

138. Simple economics - I can't afford to leave it lying idle.

139. This was no idle threat from Rhodes, whose sole focus is winning.

140. I can promise you that. Simple economics - I can't afford to leave it lying idle.

141. And he asked me a lot of very pertinent questions which seemed to me more than idle curiosity.

142. It is important to remember that logical consequences are never to be used as an idle threat.

143. Ten months after Edwina Currie raised the alarm as a health ministry Under-Secretary of State, researchers have not been idle.

144. No one is ever standing idle waiting for something to do.

145. Satan, who finds work for idle hands to do, also fills idle minds with fruitless speculation.

146. Their ideas gain plausibility amongst the idle, the envious and the unlettered.

147. The notion of bypassing capitalism, of direct transition from feudalism to socialism, was idle Utopianism.

148. The Mirror Group, for one, invested heavily in plant that stood idle.

149. And so it acquired its contemporary, pejorative connotation of idle chatter.

150. Millions of pounds worth of state-of-the-art equipment is lying idle.

151. As we leave, I glance around to see if anyone shows more than idle curiosity.

152. It has become finally clear that packing largely destitute and idle people into public housing creates a rotten place to live.

153. Certainly the new actor should never remain idle but create chances wherever possible.

154. It should be remembered that it is not idle curiosity that prompts them.

155. With government number-crunchers idle so long, no one is sure just how great the damage will be.

156. At the time I almost lived up to my nickname, Bone - close to Tone, and closer still to bone idle.

157. The resulting slump left a considerable proportion of productive capacity idle.

158. The bow dropped and the boat gurgled in idle and coasted to a stop at a nameless address.

159. For four days, authorities struggled with uncooperative weather conditions that kept divers idle and with equipment problems.

160. Exactly when we might end our voyage was largely a matter of idle speculation.

161. They closed a few plants and decided to use the idle machinery to make plastic chips for cigarette filters.

162. And, in an idle moment, he invented a method for lining women's hat-boxes!

163. The restrictive practices of stubborn unions keep the new colour-printing presses idle.

164. It regarded them as mere jetsam(), to be banished from the world like delinquents or the incorrigibly idle.

165. Market forces remain free because of public imagery about the feckless, the idle and the deviant.

166. The new machines may sit idle for months until they have been paid for.

167. As Tallis ran towards him she thought, with idle horror, that he looked as if he was praying.

168. Forgotten, or decided it had been idle talk, a vow impossible to realise.

169. She wished she could convince herself that what he'd said had merely been an idle threat.

170. Expansion of the money supply in these circumstances may lead to no additional expenditure, only additional idle balances.

171. As a family the Hendrys didn't hold with interrupting the serious business of eating with idle chatter.

172. The pile drivers stood idle in the darkness, gray silhouettes like horses sleeping upright in a field.

173. She had no time for idle gossip as she had to do all the work herself.

174. It was no place for idle talk then: there was too much action for gossip.

175. It was only from idle curiosity that she went into Nannie's room.

176. The more elastic the liquidity preference curve, the more idle balances will fall.

177. Doctors are not idle men, Miss Thorne, and you are a fit woman.

178. For autorotation practice, the throttle will be set to give a safe idle speed.

179. That leaves Mr Hamed and his four workers idle much of the time, but they are fortunate compared to others.

180. It dawned on me that no one seemed to be idle.

181. It was an idle threat on Lavinia's part to hire a companion at all.

182. Note under this option the labour cost will be nil because labour is currently available but idle.

183. It stood idle for some time, eventually being sold in 1897 and demolished a year or so later.

184. But Branson, 42, does not want the simulators sitting idle and sees them as a new money-spinner.

185. It would be idle to pretend that the Trust is wholly free from some of these faults; few organisations are.

186. Her crew were idle so she armed them with brushes and mops and set them to scrub the magnificent monument clean.

187. These are no idle scratchings but have been carefully and purposefully incised,(http:///idle.html) and the reason is self-evident.

188. He planned to keep them idle, like some ship's crew becalmed miles from shore.

189. In idle moments, I have often pictured Id! in the training camps, climbing netted gantries.

190. Tim opened his mouth to tell him to get off his idle backside, and closed it again.

191. He said it was a playground for the idle rich and ought to be used to grow crops for the proletariat.

192. By 1985 at least half of them were lying idle, stored in warehouses because of shortages of skills and software programmes.

193. A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. Victor Hugo 

194. The truly enormous condor, with its wingspread of ten feet, is a tempting target for the idle rifle.

195. But the taxi rank outside the hotel had been full and idle and the target had been straight into a vehicle.

196. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. William Shakespeare 

197. Clean, the Fouga glides well, so it is easy to throttle back to idle and float home.

198. 34 An idle youth, a needy age.

199. When BB is idle for how long the standby time is it will be locked automatically.

200. At such a time could Frederick Barbarossa remain idle at home?

201. Well , right now I am quite idle as a public servant in local city.

202. It is hardly possible to predict when the huge amount of legal and illegal idle fund will come or go.

203. Cost constraints circumstances, the development strategy can be taken in advance to reduce idle costs.

204. Idle to fine, clip cigarette in the forefinger and middle finger.

205. Then basic calibration such as ECU I/O calibration, idle speed calibration, cold start calibration, ignition advance calibration, air fuel ratio calibration, boost pressure calibration are conducted.

206. A novel channel selection algorithm is proposed based on the prediction of the probability of channel being idle.

207. mpstat now reports (below) that logical CPU 0 is back to an idle state, while CPU 1 takes over the workload from CPU 0 for WPAR "def"'s processes.

208. Corrosion was the major problem of long - term idle equipment.

209. Sometimes , when you're idle , you give up the ghost.

210. But he calls the unemployment checks " idle money. "

211. She found knitting a comfortable employment in her idle hours.

212. If there are many idle agents and all of them retain their private memory, it is possible that the system runs out of memory.

213. Since the N2 had been finished, I am in the idle state of life, always the same excuse that exam was just over and take relax for granted.

214. The OSC provides the system clock signal, it can works under three modes: fixed frequency mode, external clock synchronous mode and idle mode.

215. People and things that lie idle start to lose their productive value. Then you're into all sorts of troubles, " says Karen Ward, senior global economist at HSBC Holdings (HBC) in London.

216. Live Zhou Shaoming of fountainhead control idle fund, Wang Jian, Wang Haibo is in " economy studies " 1998 the 2nd period write civil point out: Now...

217. Based on the fundamental of electromagnetics, are summarily derived idle, load and short-circuit voltage as well as current and leakage reactance formulas.

218. But the question of who will replace him is more than an idle parlour game.

218. try its best to gather and make good sentences.

219. The idle timer starts and runs as long as no interesting traffic is seen during the idle timeout period and disconnects the call based on the idler timer configuration.

220. Guyu one that spring silkworm breeding farm to be invested in war, therefore, Qingming to Guyu just idle period, was also a bright and sunny, just merry.

221. Many programs that use CPU idle time cause the CPU to always be 100% utilized, so that the time spent where the CPU would have been idle is instead spent performing useful computations.

222. In average, due to the small scale in refurbishment project, the complex types of workers and materials as well as the unstable housing refurbishment quantity, it is easy to let craftsmen lie idle.

223. Death, old age are words without a meaning that pass by us like the idle air.

224. In the meantime his life remained run down, planless, and empty and idle.

225. September a changeling, busy a squirrel a hickory tree, idle a languid brook.

226. To avoid unnecessarily allocating stack space for threads, it creates new idle threads at intervals.

227. Causes the calling code to block for the specified time or until the associated process enters an idle state, whichever completes first.

228. Close man-made cropland a few that years to be built simply greatly mad, violate on the mother that carrying swaddle on the back also idle does not live, also ground of travel day and night works.

229. For example, after a person, wanted the Bank's boss, will be adopted by relatives or friends, cozy up to those who have idle funds to become shareholders.

230. All idle talk wasted our time and we should give It'short shrift.

231. Thus, if the realized demand is very small, the firm will suffer a great loss due to idle capacity.

232. The model of engine idle speed is the base of engine control.

233. By taking account of nonlinearity, time variation and unsteadiness of idle process in engines, this paper studies the application of fuzzy control theory for idle speed control.

234. As I sat wrapped in idle thought, suddenly I heard a rustling behind the willows.

235. A conversation about the weather isn't idle banter; it's the rapid-fire exchange of the human protocol.