lounge lizard
Example Sentences
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At 85, he retains, as Daphne Merkin once wrote in The New York Times, a louche glamour, “like a lounge lizard who reads Flaubert.”
From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2022
After the Dolls’ breakup, Sylvain embarked on a moderately successful solo career while Thunders and Nolan formed the Heartbreakers and Johansen reinvented himself as the arch lounge lizard Buster Poindexter.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2021
In another performer’s hands, the joke might have been a mockery of every Holiday Inn lounge lizard.
From Washington Post • Oct. 19, 2016
This time, instead of a couple of machines, Ocean brings a band with him, all in suits, whose bearded, long-haired guitarist looks like a lounge lizard but plays like a dream.
From The Guardian • Jul. 13, 2013
You ride or golf or worse than waste your time on some lounge lizard, dancing till time to come home to dress for dinner.
From The Call of the Canyon by Grey, Zane
