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1
a lazy person
- the new boss quickly figured out who the do-nothings were and fired them
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2
an idle worthless person
- he indiscriminately dismisses the state legislators as a bunch of do-nothings who live at the taxpayers' expense
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The first known use of do-nothing was in 1579
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