lazy

lazy dog

Someone who is lazy or idle. Come on, you lazy dog—I can't carry all these groceries by myself. I'm not having any luck getting the kids to go play outside. They're being total lazy dogs today.
See also: dog, lazy

lazy man's load

A large amount that should be carried over multiple trips, but which a person tries to carry all at once in order to avoid making a second trip. Stop trying to take a lazy man's load—take two trips to bring the groceries in or you'll end up breaking something.
See also: lazy, load

lazy-bones

A particularly lazy or indolent person. Come on, lazy-bones, you've spent half the day in bed. Time to get up and be productive!

the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy do

A sentence that contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet. My mom had to take a typing class when she was growing up, and "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" was commonly used as an exercise to learn where all the letters were on the keyboard.
See also: brown, fox, jump, lazy, over, quick
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

lazy man's load

An extremely heavy burden undertaken so as to move it in one trip rather than making several trips. Always referring to moving something physically, this cliché dates from the turn of the twentieth century and may be dying out.
See also: lazy, load
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
See also:
  • lazy dog
  • lazybones
  • lazy-bones
  • sprawl
  • sprawl about
  • bone idle
  • bone-idle
  • be bone idle
  • idle about
  • moon away
References in periodicals archive
Despite his remarks, Tulfo said he is not generalizing that all Filipino workers are lazy.
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The weak poor is powerless and poor because he is lazy. The slaves of Saint-Dominique revolted when they thought they had had enough of the oppression of their overlords.
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One viewer said: "Why does that guy on take me out look like stingy from lazy town"
Take Me Out viewers in fits of giggles at Elvis fan who is almost identical to Lazy Town character Stingy; Ryan from Leicester was trying to get a date with one of the Flirty Thirty to Fernando's - but viewers thought he looked familiar
"The Lazy Universe" explains: why an optimization principle underlies physical; what action is; what 'the Hamiltonian' is; and how new insights into energy, space, and time arise.
The Lazy Universe
Branko Geroski in Sloboden pecat refers to an article he wrote in 2004 in which he criticizes that there are no visions, ideas, projects and spirit in Macedonia, thus there is no atmosphere to do business, to the contrary people wait until the roof collapses under their heads or want someone to inject capital directly in their pockets while they enjoy their afternoon siesta, feeling the agony and playing the role of victims, which is actually just a lame excuse of our lazy spirit".
We shouldn't be lazy posers
10 is celebrated as National Lazy Day, which is marked to bring into focus people who spend a lot of time becoming couch potatoes.
National Lazy Day 2017 Quotes
The 'Tanu Weds Manu Returns' star said she was extremely lazy and hated taking baths.
When Kangana was Lazy
Low-voltage electrical currents can improve vision in adults with lazy eye, which was previously thought to be treatable only in children, according to new research.
New hope for adults with lazy eye
Amblyopia more commonly known as "lazy eye" -- all the more obvious, but the physical manifestation of the most common cause of vision problems among children the world over is actually a brain disorder.
Lazy Eye: Is Patching the Solution?
The Hexham firm linked with Rothbury's Lazy Grace to build a new site that shows off its growing range of botanically-brewed beverages.
Fentimans looking to create a fizz with re-launched website
This week, Carole Fitzgerald of acclaimed catering company Lazy Sunday, makes a rich and seasonal Chestnut and Apple Soup.
CHESTNUT AND APPLE SOUP; RECIPE FOR THE WEEKEND