lazy-bones

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noun inactive person who watches a lot of television

noun. inactive person who watches a lot of television

1590s, from lazy + plural of bone (n.).

Get up, lazy-bones, and come and have a walk with me before breakfast.

What was he doin', the lazy-bones, that he couldn't catch the villain?

"There's no soup for you, lazy-bones," cried the old woman from her kitchen.

But nothing for us, lazy-bones, till midnightor morning, more likely.

But Big Lazy-bones fell to singing hymns, for he had a strong voice.

"I am not such a lazy-bones as you evidently thought me," she says.

She stood immediately in front of me and silently looked up with a steady reproachful gaze: "Ain't you 'shamed, you lazy-bones?"

He was not a sickly man, who was forced to keep his bed, but he was a lazy-bones who was there of choice.

"Yes, the army nowadays is a good place for lazy-bones," agreed the officer.

Big Lazy-bones wanted his money back; but you may believe he never got so much as two Danish shillings.