Lazy louse

"Lift the body, Phil," I said, "and get going. Don't be a lazy louse." "All right, all right!" [author's italics] He got quickly to his feet and giving Paul a sour look, disappeared through the door of my screened back gallery.

Early, moving toward the woodpile, mutters, 'Jest wait till I grow up and see if you lazy louses can make me chop wood 'cause I'm the littlest.' Only when the welfare of the children was at stake did the ranch women become dictatorial.

Even being a lazy louse lying in bed without the hallucination of the reveille seems to constitute an august virtue and a permanent achievement of human civilization.

The lure of ditching a horrible boss or no longer having to work with a lazy louse can be very tempting—but be warned. You're about to get a crash course in the meaning of self-motivation.