loaf about
Waste time lazily
To loaf about is to spend time idly, doing nothing in particular.
The phrase suggests pleasant laziness rather than guilty neglect: We loafed about the house all Sunday.
Loaf around means the same thing.
British English favors loaf about; American English slightly prefers loaf around.
- bumIdle vagrant
- laze aroundBe idle leisurely
- sit aroundRemain inactive somewhere
- lay aroundRested idly, unproductively
- couch potatoHabitual sedentary TV watcher
veg out · lounge · kick back · take it easy · relax · dawdle · vegetate · indolence · bum around · idle · slothfulness · lump · lollygag · loiter · idling · unwinding · laziness · chilling
work ethic and industriousness
loaf aboutpull one's weight
Do one's fair share
earn one's keep · burn the midnight oil · nose to the grindstone · apply oneself · buckle down