| 单词 | afternoon farmer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasafternoon farmer afternoon farmer n. originally English regional (midlands and southern) a farmer who begins work late; a procrastinating or lazy farmer; (in extended use) a lazy person. ΚΠ 1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman June iii. 39 Others, where the Crop is thin, will not hough at all; but these are your Afternoon Farmers, as we call them. 1838 Farmer's Mag. Apr. 315/2 A few of those termed afternoon-farmers, who, let the season be ever so favourable, are always behind hand. 1889 Standard 28 Nov. 2/1 The rain and snow..have come too soon for a few ‘afternoon farmers’, who have not yet put in all their wheat. 1910 W. Raymond Eng. Country Life (1911) xxix. 359 Goodman Rudd was something of an ‘afternoon farmer’, as folk said. 1952 J. Reaney Bully in R. Weaver & H. James Canad. Short Stories 204 He was what is known as an afternoon farmer. He could never get out into the fields till about half-past eleven in the morning. 2005 D. Francis Great Inland Sea 151 My father said Dickie was lazy, called him an afternoon farmer. < as lemmas |
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