bone-idle
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See also: bone idle
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Etymology[edit]
Laziness that penetrates the very bones. Attested 1836.[1] Similar terms (bone-lazy, bone-sore, bone-tired) pre-dated it in The Vocabulary Of East Anglia, 1830, Robert Forby.
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Adjective[edit]
bone-idle (not comparable)
- (British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, idiomatic) Utterly lazy.
- 1836, Thomas Carlyle, New Letters:
- For the last three weeks I have been going what you call bone-idle.
Translations[edit]
utterly lazy
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References[edit]
- ^ Gary Martin (1997–) “Bone idle”, in The Phrase Finder, retrieved 26 February 2017.