Bone idle

Learning English Conversations

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Language Learning, Education

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2018

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Are you taking it easy or just being lazy? Here's a phrase to describe your condition

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0:00.0	This is a download from BBC Learning English.
0:03.0	To find out more, visit our website.
0:06.0	The English we speak.
0:09.0	From BBC learning English.
0:11.0	com. See Learning English. English.
0:17.0	Hello and welcome to the English we speak. I'm Faye Faye and... Oh excuse me please.
0:21.0	Rob, can we have your attention please? Oh oh all right then hello I'm
0:28.4	Rob. Rob could you take your feet off the table please. Oh, all right there.
0:34.0	There you go.
0:35.0	Faye, do I have to present this program today?
0:39.0	Why? What's wrong?
0:40.0	Well, I've done so much work already and according to my watch, I should be having a coffee
0:46.8	break now. Really? Rob's being lazy because he was out late last night.
0:53.0	Rob, there is a phrase to describe your condition.
0:56.0	Oh yes, overworked, energetic?
0:59.0	No, the opposite.
1:01.0	It's bone idle. Literally your idle right through to your bones. In other words, you're
1:07.6	very lazy. It's a great phrase, Faye Faye Faye, but that doesn't describe me.
1:13.0	Look, I've just moved my little finger.
1:16.0	Ha ha, I think we had better hear some more examples while you move the rest of your body.
1:21.0	Ugh. rest of your body. The doctor has told my brother to do more exercise, but he won't do
1:30.1	it. He's bone idle. You are bone idle. You've been at home all day and you're still
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