: not being used There were too many promising ideas lying fallow at the company.

What does it mean to let land lie fallow?

In other words, fallow land is land left to rest and regenerate. A field, or several fields, are taken out of crop rotation for a specific period of time, usually one to five years, depending on crop. ... The following year, farmers would plant crops in the fallow land, while letting the other half rest or fallow.

What does going fallow mean?

1 : left untilled or unsown after plowing. 2 : dormant, inactive —used especially in the phrase to lie fallow at this very moment there are probably important inventions lying fallow — Harper's.