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Meanings of do-nothing in English
Synonyms
Examples for "bum"
Examples for "bum"
1
I remembered something Trapp had told me once about his bridge-bum days.
2
The trim, khaki-garbed enlistment officer rubs elbows with the lodging house bum.
3
Guess the lamp is on the bum, but you hardly need that.
4
The law, missing the right quarry, descends on the slower-moving, harmless bum.
5
I just couldn't resist giving him the bum's rush for a change.
1
Seeing an idler in the square above she questioned him in Spanish.
2
The parasite pluckily sets to; the idler becomes a glutton for work.
3
You can help only by abolishing the one idler under your control.
4
He and the idler are equally honored, and die the same death.
5
Certainly; from twelve to sunset I shall be roving about,- amereidler.
1
For Marty Day was not the only young loafer in the town.
2
The governor appointed a loafer fellow, in the early days, Port Warden.
3
Stepping over to the other side, her right loafer crunched in something.
4
The one thing you cannot do is loafer with a heavy heart.
5
In so far as I am an artist, I am a loafer.
1
It was Jane who spotted ability and ambition in the teenage layabout.
2
An alcoholic layabout is asked by his wife to look after their baby.
3
Once again, a figure of trust is portrayed as a drunken, irresponsible layabout.
4
But, is she really a worse role model than that passive layabout, Sleeping Beauty?
5
The reason they go for Tommy's because he's a layabout.
Usage of do-nothing in English
1
And here is the do-nothing example retooled to handle all arguments explicitly: