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The art of doing absolutely nothing while looking like you've earned it.
means Lying or sitting in pleasant warmth or light — usually the sun's — and soaking it up with contented stillness.
from From the verb "bask," which entered Middle English from Old Norse "baðask," meaning "to bathe oneself" — the reflexive form of "baða," to bathe. So the original idea was bathing, but in heat rather than water; one bathed in warmth the way one bathed in a stream. Shakespeare helped fix the sunnier sense in English, and from there it stretched to bathing in praise, glory, and any glow worth lingering in.
- solar diet
- Lizards bask to digest food using sunlight, not effort
- basking shark
- Second-largest fish, filters plankton with mouth wide open
- vitamin factory
- Human skin makes vitamin D directly from sunlight
- thermal strategy
- Cold-blooded animals can't move fast until warmed up
- glory included
- The phrase extends to basking in praise or attention
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basking shark — second largest fish species, up to 40 feet long, filter feeds in atlantic and pacific