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Synonyms for lazy-bones
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ley-zee-bohnz |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈleɪ ziˌboʊnz |
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Définition of lazy-bones
Origin :- 1590s, from lazy + plural of bone (n.).
- As in couch potato : noun inactive person who watches a lot of television
- Get up, lazy-bones, and come and have a walk with me before breakfast.
- Extract from : « The Light of Scarthey » by Egerton Castle
- What was he doin', the lazy-bones, that he couldn't catch the villain?
- Extract from : « The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley » by Louis Tracy
- "There's no soup for you, lazy-bones," cried the old woman from her kitchen.
- Extract from : « Original Short Stories, Volume 9 (of 13) » by Guy de Maupassant
- But nothing for us, lazy-bones, till midnightor morning, more likely.
- Extract from : « Langford of the Three Bars » by Kate Boyles
- But Big Lazy-bones fell to singing hymns, for he had a strong voice.
- Extract from : « Arne: Early Tales and Sketches » by Bjornstjerne Bjornson
- "I am not such a lazy-bones as you evidently thought me," she says.
- Extract from : « Rossmoyne » by Unknown
- She stood immediately in front of me and silently looked up with a steady reproachful gaze: "Ain't you 'shamed, you lazy-bones?"
- Extract from : « The Journal of a Disappointed Man » by Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion
- He was not a sickly man, who was forced to keep his bed, but he was a lazy-bones who was there of choice.
- Extract from : « Talks To Farmers » by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- "Yes, the army nowadays is a good place for lazy-bones," agreed the officer.
- Extract from : « Shelled by an Unseen Foe » by James Fiske
- Big Lazy-bones wanted his money back; but you may believe he never got so much as two Danish shillings.
- Extract from : « Arne: Early Tales and Sketches » by Bjornstjerne Bjornson
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