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bone-idle
adjective
Utterly lazy
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It's high time we stopped letting those bone-idle masses drain our resources".
Ethan, who's snidely dismissed by the voiceover as a bone-idle layabout, hasn't got much on right now.
If not, where were these bone-idle non-observant angels when it came to stopping the other (metaphysical?) force pushing her over?
This leaves Labour trapped between a public perception of high spending on the feckless and the bone-idle, and a reality of a welfare system that spends mostly on pensions, child support, help for working families and disability.
Importantly, this shift from being procession-based to the static sound systems had massive appeal to inherently bone-idle teenagers, to whom standing about should have been an Olympic event.
Annabel Croft seems to have thought of it as an opportunity for personal exploration, Kohli presented it as altruism and Bruce Jones, who played Les in Coronation Street, was apparently looking forward to confirming his prejudices about "bone-idle arseholes".
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Bone idle with it.
"I'd be sitting around at home reading the paper or watching the television, being bone idle," he sayd.
Not having to listen to bone idle, miserable wankers like you!", it was magically devoid of sentimentality.
The second one's bone idle in all aspects, which is a shame 'cos he's got bags of abilities.
The time has come to ask myself – just how bone idle do I want to end up?
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