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the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > be idle or unoccupied [verb (intransitive)] (88)
emptyeOE

intransitive and transitive (reflexive). To be unoccupied or at leisure; to be or make oneself free for an activity; to devote oneself to a person…

to tell the clock1527

to tell the clock: (a) to count the hours as shown by a clock; to tell the time; †(b) to pass the time idly (cf. tell-clock n. at tell-, comb._form

idle1668

To be idle; to spend the time in idleness.

to kick one's heels1703

British. to kick one's heels: to wait, esp. idly or impatiently; to mark time. Cf. to cool one's heels at cool, v.1 phrases 4.

twirl1777

To turn (one's fingers or thumbs) rapidly about one another; spec. to twirl one's thumbs, as an idle occupation when one has nothing to do. Cf. t

gammer1788

intransitive. To idle, trifle, gossip; to lounge about; to fritter away (time).

to twiddle one's thumbs, or fingers1846

to twiddle one's thumbs,or fingers, to keep turning them idly around each other; figurative to have nothing to do, to be idle.

to make (also do) kef1852

The enjoyment of idleness; ‘dolce far niente’. to make (also do) kef, to pass the time in idleness.

goof1932

intransitive. To dawdle, to spend time idly or foolishly; to ‘skive’; to gawp; to let one's attention wander. Sometimes const. off.

doss1937

intransitive. British colloquial. To fool about, to mess around; to pass time idly or aimlessly; to be lazy. Usually with about, around.

to sit on one's hands1939

Originally U.S. To be inactive, to take no action.

to bugger about ——1946

intransitive. To lounge about (a place); to waste time in; to mess about in.

to spin one's wheels1960

transitive. To cause to turn or revolve rapidly; to twirl or whirl. Figurative phrase to spin one's wheels (U.S. colloquial), to mark time, to do…

Subcategories:

— occupy oneself in a period of inactivity (1)
— potter or waste time in trifling activity (74)
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