to summer-fallow

An area where work is being done. / (more specifically) A segment of road along which road construction is being done.

summer fallow

A fictional account; a story. / A fictitious account; an account of events that never took place.

(transitive, with object after out) To calculate. / (transitive) To make sense of. / (transitive) To smooth or perfect. / (intransitive) To conclude with the correct solution.

Any of several professions concerned with providing social services to members of the community.

(metallurgy) Any of several plastic deformations of metal (or other material) at relatively low temperatures.

Of or pertaining to the relationship between one's work life and personal life.

(idiomatic) To work slowly by strictly following all work rules, usually in a work-to-rule job action, as part of unionized labor protest.

Alternative spelling of work-to-rule