One idea · 3 languages

“Be bone idle”in other languages

Be extremely lazy.

  • English
  • French
  • Romanian
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Same idea, different pictures

English makes the laziness go right down to the bone. French grows a hair in the palm of the hand, avoir un poil dans la main: a hand that never works never wears the hair away.

Romanian a tăia frunză la câini, to cut leaves for the dogs, pictures work that's pure pretense: dogs don't eat leaves.

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