Crossword clues for idles
idles
- Keeps the engine running
- Runs while standing still
- Runs out of gear?
- Just hangs around
- Doesn't do much
- Just sits there
- Doesn't go anywhere
- Waits in traffic
- Stays in neutral
- Sits in traffic
- Sits at a stoplight, for example
- Runs, but remains stopped
- Remains neutral?
- Lets the engine run
- Is inactive
- Doesn't do a thing
- What a slacker does
- What a goldbrick does
- Wastes gas, maybe
- Wastes gas
- Waits unmoving in traffic
- Waits for the green
- Waits for the action to pick up again
- Waits for a green light, say
- Waits at the drive-thru
- Waits at a light, say
- Sits in park, say
- Sits at a traffic light
- Sits at a light, say
- Sits at a light
- Runs while standing
- Revs in neutral
- Remains in neutral
- Puts a dent in one's gas mileage
- Lounges indolently
- Lets a parked car's engine run
- Leaves running
- Keeps running at a red light
- Keeps from working
- Just sits
- Isn't busy
- Goofs around
- Gets zero mpg
- Gets nowhere
- Gets in a jam, maybe
- Doodles, perhaps
- Runs in neutral gear
- Runs in place?
- Runs with no effect
- Waits at the stoplight
- Runs while sitting
- Twiddles one's thumbs
- Cools one's heels
- Benches
- Lollygags
- Dogs it
- Runs with minimal power
- Runs without moving
- Isn't going anywhere
- Does nothing
- Puts out of work
- Runs for no purpose
- Lays off
- Putters
- Just sits around
- Sits in neutral
- Kills time
- Lies around
- Doesn't do anything
- Wastes gas, say
- Loafs around
- Hangs out
- Is otiose
- Lazes around
- Takes one's ease
- Wastes time
- Takes it easy
- Lolls
- Takes life easy
- Relaxes
- Enjoys the holiday
- Is in neutral
- Lallygags
- Does nothing with papers in case, in short
- Hangs around
- Goofs off
- Doesn't work
- Fritters away time
- Fritters away
- Waits at the light
- Goes nowhere, say
- Sits around
Wiktionary
vb. (en-third-person singular of: idle)
Wikipedia
Idlès ( Arabic: إدلس) is a municipality in Tazrouk District, Tamanrasset Province, Algeria. According to the 2008 census it has a population of 4,945, up from 3,791 in 1998, with an annual growth rate of 2.7%. Its postal code is 11110 and its municipal code is 1105. The largest nearby city is Tamanrasset; other smaller towns include In Amguel to the west and Tazrouk to the south.
Usage examples of "idles".
It idles, its panel door facing the declivity and the other white van's panel door far below.
She plays it cool, idles toward the barrier at maybe ten miles an hour.
I don't want to have to hang about for the blast, which idles along at the speed of sound.
The bus idles empty for a very long timethe post-event scrums and standups last longer than the whole THM didand then when the BS1 regulars finally do pile in they're all extremely busy trying to type and phone and file, and all the techs have to get their SX and DVS Digital Editors out (the CBS machine's being held steady on their cameraman's little stepladder in the aisle because all the tables and the ERPP are full) and help their producers find and time the clip of Mrs.
The occupants hadn't come in, for the room looked empty as only a room can look in Paris, of a fine afternoon, when the faint murmur of the huge collective life, carried on out of doors, strays among scattered objects even as a summer air idles in a lonely garden.