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idle away |
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idle something away Fig. to waste one's time in idleness; to waste a period of time, such as an afternoon, evening, one's life. She idled the afternoon away and then went to a party. Don't idle away the afternoon. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Chinese families come there to spend time together, businessmen woo clients over a foot-soaking, and young people come to idle away a night. Chinese families come there to spend time together, businessmen woo clients over a foot-soaking, and young people come to idle away a night. He finds companionship of the Whitmanesque kind in the most unexpected, often potentially threatening places and concludes, to his surprise, that bars in college towns, where the clientele tends to be well-educated and politically progressive, are the least friendly places for a lone traveller to idle away an evening. |
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