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To relax or laze around

To be idle or do nothing in particular

To become inactive or unchanging

A lazy, feckless person

Tending to sloth

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Verb

To relax or laze around

entertain oneself

let it all hang out

take a breather

put your feet up

let your hair down

let yourself go

make yourself at home

compose oneself

take one's time

take one's leisure

collect oneself

make less tense

get some shut-eye

recharge one's batteries

refresh oneself

snatch forty winks

have forty winks

catch forty winks

sleep like a log

sleep like a top

take forty winks

come up for air

be in the land of Nod

be in the arms of Morpheus

have a lie-down

be dead to the world

catch one's breath

get your head down

take a load off

get forty winks

catch some few Zs

get some shuteye

put your head down

catch a few 'z' s

catch some zeds

suspend proceedings

take a chill pill

have a breather

stretch oneself out

be stretched out

stop for a breath

go up the stairs to Bedfordshire

be in the arms of morpheus

rest in the arms of morpheus

be in the land of nod

go out like a light

rest in the arms of Morpheus

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To be idle or do nothing in particular

have nothing to do

not lift a finger

sit on one's hands

kick your heels

fritter away time

bat back and forth

while away hours

fritter time away

shirk one's duties

take things easy

while away the time

while away the hours

lay on one's oars

sit back and do nothing

rest on your oars

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Verb

To become inactive or unchanging

become stagnant

grind to a halt

bat back and forth

lay on one's oars

sit back and do nothing

rest on your oars

kick your heels

fritter away time

while away the time

get no place fast

do nothing much

while away time

fritter time away

sit on one's hands

idle away the hours

while away hours

not lift a finger

take one's time

spin one's wheels

lie down on job

do nothing in particular

while away the hours

take a breather

put your feet up

put off doing something

use delaying tactics

let the grass grow under one's feet

play a waiting game

shirk one's duties

take things easy

bring up the rear

scrounge around

dodge the column

evade one's duty

sit on one's butt

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Noun

A lazy, feckless person

good-for-nothing

slubberdegullion

useless article

inactive person

television viewer

homeless person

knight of the road

person of no fixed abode

person of no fixed address

bird of passage

displaced person

good for nothing

persona non grata

unemployed person

shipwrecked person

shopping-bag lady

shopping-bag person

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Adjective

Tending to sloth

procrastinating

good-for-nothing

procrastinative

disorganized^US

asleep at the wheel

asleep on the job

disorganised^UK

lacking in energy

non-participating

having spring fever

asleep on one's feet

in the doldrums

non-participative

dead to the world

undemonstrative

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