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afternoon farmer
noun
a lazy and unsuccessful farmer CANADA- He was what is known as an afternoon farmer. He could never get out into the fields till about half-past eleven in the morning and he never seemed to be able to grow much of anything except buckwheat which as everyone knows is the lazy farmer’s crop. — Mavis Gallant, “The Bully,” in Canadian Short Stories, p. 371, 1960
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