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the patron saint of tomorrow, fluent in every excuse but action.
means A person who is habitually lazy and slow to act, avoiding work or effort wherever possible.
from From Middle English 'sluggard,' built on the verb 'slug' or 'slug(g)en' meaning to be slow or sluggish, plus the often-disapproving suffix '-ard' (the same one that flavors 'drunkard' and 'coward'). That core 'slug' is likely of Scandinavian origin, a cousin of dialectal Norwegian and Swedish words for heavy, slow, limp things — the same dawdling root that later gave the garden slug its unhurried name.
- bible burn
- Proverbs literally tells sluggards to study ants
- old word
- From Norse 'slokr,' a lazy, drooping person
- slug roots
- Shares ancestry with the slow, slimy mollusk
- deadly sin
- Sloth made the medieval list of seven
rip van winkle — washington irving's character who slept for 20 years in the catskill mountains
sleeping beauty — fairy tale character who slept for 100 years after pricking her finger on a spindle