lazybones

And what did all you lazybones achieve?

He grunted with every step, heading for his cart, and hollered, “Get up, lazybones!”

The lazybones description of lawmakers came into vogue once again over two decades later.

“Lazybones/sleepin’ in the sun/How you spect to get your day’s work done?/

Never get your day’s work done/Sleepin’ in the noonday sun …” An old Southern diddy famously crooned by her favorite baritone, Paul Robeson Jr., “Lazybones” was my grandmother’s signature taunt for me to finish my chores, which invariably included searching the roadside for pretty stones to decorate her never-quite-finished rock garden.