Possible Clues:

• Do nothing new, breaking stone after stone
• Nag horribly, in mood to turn foul
• Brown back in period of decline
• Decline to speak about a no good uprising
• Become stale from lack of motion
• ... agents at loggerheads do absolutely nothing
• Do nothing, say, about a generation without heart
• Stand still
• Hunted animal with a net, perhaps, then do nothing
• Still go to the bad for what the buck consumed around the North