It takes more than idle rumor to shatter a well-formed belief.

"We used to feed reporters little bits of information to chew on just so they wouldn't distort idle rumors all out of proportion."

T'Pol tells him that they are senior officers and should disregard idle rumors.

All the talk of Jewish blood sacrifices more than the idle rumors he'd taken them for?

The title Idle Roomers is a pun on "idle rumors."

That alone shows it's just some sort of an idle rumor.

Are these things mere ghosts and idle rumors?

I mentioned an idle rumor to Shebley and he took it literally.

Don't think these were idle rumors, either; some men were still in France eight months later.

I hardly knew him; the idle rumor that he had once said he liked me provided enough spark to ignite the journey.