“Be bone idle”in other languages
Be extremely lazy.
English
French
Romanian
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.
More sayings in other languages
- Be in the know
- Be scared stiff
- Be taken for a ride
- Beat around the bush
- Bend over backwards
- Bite the bullet
- Bite the dust
- Bite the hand that feeds you
- A bitter pill to swallow