Related Clues:

• Unemployed
• Just twiddling one’s thumbs
• Just hanging around
• Not at all active
• Taking a break
• With nothing to do
• Not doing anything
• Frequent Cleese co-star
• Recharging one's batteries, so to speak
• Out of view
• Kind of chatter
• Powerless to act
• Doing nothing
• Torpid
• Comic Eric