Then again, the ring would probably have lain idle for a very long time.

But allowing such rooms to lie idle is beginning to trouble a growing number of board members.

"Money should not lie idle if wealth is to be created," he said in a recent television interview.

Now she took one of the hands lying idle on the coverlet and held it between her own.

They're lying idle at the moment, and costing him money.

Some end up selling the farms or simply leave the farm lying idle.

The question is whether there are real resources in the economy lying idle that the government can put to work.

Many analysts believe he will cut by half the number of acres lying idle.

He picked up her hand lying idle on the table and kissed it.

The longer the ship lies idle, the greater the cost.