idle pulley
idler pulley
idle wheel | a pulley on a shaft that presses against a guide belt to guide or tighten it |
wind malarkey
malarky
idle words
jazz nothingness | empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk, that's a lot of wind, don't give me any of that jazz |
prate
prattle
idle talk
blether
chin music | idle or foolish and irrelevant talk |
| idle | the state of an engine or other mechanism that is idling, the car engine was running at idle |
idle
tick over | run disconnected or idle, the engine is idling |
idle
laze
slug
stagnate | be idle, exist in a changeless situation, The old man sat and stagnated on his porch, He slugged in bed all morning |
idle
unused | not in active use, the machinery sat idle during the strike, idle hands |
| idle | not in action or at work, an idle laborer, idle drifters, the idle rich, an idle mind |
bone-idle
bone-lazy | constitutionally lazy or idle |
idle
jobless
out of work | not having a job, idle carpenters, jobless transients, many people in the area were out of work |
dead
idle | not yielding a return, dead capital, idle funds |
idle
loose | lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility, idle talk, a loose tongue |
idle
light | silly or trivial, idle pleasure, light banter, light idle chatter |
baseless
groundless
idle
unfounded
unwarranted
wild | without a basis in reason or fact, baseless gossip, the allegations proved groundless, idle fears, unfounded suspicions, unwarranted jealousy |