phone sth in
informal often disapproving— phrasal verb with phone uk/fəʊn/us/foʊn/verb [ I or T ]
If someone phones in a performance, they do it without any effort:
The actor phoned in his performance without a hint of personality.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Laziness and lazy people
- bludger
- bone idle idiom
- bum around
- CBA
- clock-watching
- deadbeat
- doss
- idle
- inertia
- layabout
- lazy
- lazybones
- lie down on the job idiom
- loafer
- skiver
- slacker
- slackness
- slob
- sloth
- slug
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