How do you use lazybones in a sentence?

1. The lazybones always alibied themselves out of work. 2. Come on, lazybones!
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Who is a lazybones?

/ˈleɪ.zi.boʊnz/ plural lazybones. someone who is lazy: [ as form of address ] Hey lazybones, get up from the sofa and help me with the dishes! Laziness and lazy people.
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Is Lazy Bones an idiom?

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!
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How do you use Theirin a sentence?

Reviewing some examples of "their" in a sentence should help you get its usage right.
  1. The red one is their house.
  2. The beagle is their dog.
  3. Going to the store was their idea.
  4. They're in over their heads.
  5. Joe and Sue always want things their way.
  6. I didn't know that it was their cat.
  7. Their dog is always barking.
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What is a therin?

1 : in or into that place, time, or thing. 2 : in that particular or respect therein lies the problem.
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Is therefrom a proper word?

Therefrom is formal and is often used in legal language. Trying to take the word “therefrom,” let it be the seedling of a tweet and let the rest of the tweet radiate therefrom. It worked!
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What is a lazy bum?

informal : a person who is lazy or who does something badly. Get to work, you lazy bum!
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What does Couch Potato mean in English?

Definition of couch potato

: a lazy and inactive person especially : one who spends a great deal of time watching television.
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Where does lazy bones come from?

Lazybones or "Lazy Bones" is a Tin Pan Alley song written in 1933, with lyrics by Johnny Mercer and music by Hoagy Carmichael.
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What is a lazy head?

1 not inclined to work or exertion. 2 conducive to or causing indolence. 3 moving in a languid or sluggish manner.
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Where does the word Chatterbox come from?

Chatterbox dates from the 1770s, a combination of chatter, an echoic or onomatopoeic word, and box, giving chatterbox the sense of "a box or container full of idle chatter."
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Is rettendon boot sale on tomorrow?

Rettendon – Lazybones Bootsale

Every Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday from Mid March to Mid November (weather permitting!)
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Is couch potato offensive?

A few days ago, a friend asked me whether the term couch potato is an offensive term. A person who is described as a couch potato spends a great deal of time watching TV and is inactive. Any lazy person can be called a couch potato. The term has a negative connotation because nobody wants to be called a couch potato.
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How do you use couch potato in a sentence?

They are a very active breed but, like greyhounds, as indoor dogs they are couch potatoes and need little real exercise. He stated that his goal was to move couch potatoes from the television screen to the computer screen. Pointers are habitual couch potatoes who enjoy relaxing on the family's chairs or sofas.
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What is the opposite of a couch potato?

Near Antonyms for couch potato. achiever, comer, highflier.
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What does it mean when a girl calls you a bum?

If someone refers to another person as a bum, they think that person is worthless or irresponsible. [informal, disapproval] You're all a bunch of bums.
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What is a fancy word for lazy?

The words indolent and slothful are common synonyms of lazy.
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How do I stop being a bum?

Eat lots of fruit & veg, drink lots of water, exercise, get out more. It may help for you to get into a rhythm of getting up at a certain time, exercising, eat, go out, do more ****, come back, eat, etc. DON'T take any drugs (including alcohol) regularly. Follow these steps & I imagine you'll become less of a bum.
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How do you use therefrom and thereof?

From that as a cause, reason, etc.; therefrom. Thereof is defined as of, concerning or from. An example of thereof used as an adverb is in the sentence, "A declaration was made today thereof the king," which means that a declaration from the king was made today.
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What does wherefrom mean?

from which place; whence.
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What is another word for thereof?

In this page you can discover 10 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for thereof, like: whereof, therein, the-like, forthwith, aforesaid, therefrom, thereon, hereof, thereto and thence.
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Why was it called Tin Pan Alley?

He wrote: “It gets its name from the tin-panny sounds of pianos that are banged and rattled there by night and day as new songs and old are played over and over into the ears of singing comedians, comic-opera prima donnas and single soubrettes and 'sister teams' from vaudeville.
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