Granted, my reaction was less than rational, but I was left feeling diminished by the idle tales Liza told.

Listen, Pushkin: Enough of that; tell me no idle tales!

It was with such idle tales and talk-play that the afternoon passed.

The bloodcurse is no idle tale, I know it is not.

The apostles had little respect for her witness and that of the other women, saying they "seemed as idle tales.

He shook his head- they were all idle tales; not worthy of being told to a caballero like myself.

The sacred books are only such a set of idle tales as any age could have and indeed did actually produce.

"Do I spin you an idle tale or do I speak the truth?"

Occasionally, one would see the force of the evidence, but the great majority passed it by as an idle tale.

But in towns and among the so-called better classes, I fear that these old doings have become an idle tale.