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What does bone-idle mean?

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Adjective
  1. (Britain, idiomatic) utterly lazy
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Iain Duncan Smith apparently subscribes to the same misguided theory that everyone on benefits is a bone-idle scrounger.
One minute we're inclined to rise up and whoop with joy at being told bone-idle is what sets our mind in a truly good mood.
Ethan, who's snidely dismissed by the voiceover as a bone-idle layabout, hasn't got much on right now.
Faced with bone-idle players would he feather-bed them for life?
For the last three weeks I have been going what you call bone-idle.
He is the paragon of all the preconceptions you may have regarding civil servants: lazy, bone-idle and not particularly bright.

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