Her idle gossip had cost him the love of his life.

"Now, what are you doing spreading idle gossip like that for?"

But the issue, which used to be typically idle political gossip about a man in his 10th decade, has lately become quite serious.

It doesn't seem to be idle gossip any longer.

I am not one to pass on idle gossip, as you know.

I care nothing for the idle gossip of the world.

Reports to the contrary, she said, were the product of idle gossip.

These people don't present anything other than idle gossip to the rest of the world.

Of course, as the author explains, these stories aren't idle gossip but reveal how actors work.

The thought wasn't the idle gossip it should have been.