Related Clues:

• Between tasks
• Run in neutral, perhaps
• Insubstantial
• Kind of speculation
• Like inconsequential talk
• Neutral state?
• Off from work
• Twiddle one's thumbs
• Gathering dust, so to speak
• Sitting on your butt
• Dillydally
• Onetime cohort of Cleese, Palin et al.
• Having no basis
• On the sidelines
• Disengaged