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For today’s English lesson, let’s have a look at six idioms that relate to being lazy. The idioms are slack off, lazybones, slug, get off your tail, bum around, and deadbeat.
Here are the example sentences. To get the details of this English lesson, you need to listen to the podcast or check the transcript for the details:
- Near the end of the school year, Sally began to slack off, and her grades showed it.
- Hey lazybones, get up from the sofa and help me with the dishes!
- Joe! Stop being a couch potato. Turn off the TV and do your homework!
- I had a bad hangover so I was such a slug yesterday.
- The boss told Tommy to get off his tail and finish his report on time.
- We spend the day bumming around on the beach.
- There are a lot of deadbeats hanging around in that park these days.
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