Lounge lizard

"Lounge lizard" in a Sentence (12 examples)

There is at least a tinge of truth in that picture of Southern England as one enormous Brighton inhabited by lounge-lizards.

I certainly don't advocate trying to copy some Las Vegas lounge lizard.

With his panther glide and lounge-lizard eyes, Fishburne has become one of film's most mesmerizing stars.

Someone should pull together a major movie for this actor, because he’s great at playing heels with a vagrant streak of decency—say, a lounge lizard with feelings, an uncomfortably adulterous husband.

Wayne Newton says he has one request: Never call an entertainer a "lounge lizard."

A second later, funky beats and distorted guitars kicked in, and then quirky hip-hop-style vocals with a country-and-Western lounge-lizard overlay.

The distorted phrasing feels almost hokey, in the vein of what we typically think of as Vegas lounge-lizard style, quick talk-sing phrasing punctuated by sustained soaring notes.

Ross had expected to find a hungover Vegas lounge lizard; instead, he witnessed a surprising demonstration of Frank [Sinatra] at the peak of his powers.

Watch only thirty to ninety minutes of TV a day, so people don't think you're a lounge lizard, a couch potato, or a pet rock.

Social television is a direct challenge to the idea that television is an anti-social, lower-class, lounge-lizard, couch surfing, domestic, household activity.

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Mort, who was still welded to the sofa, spoke without looking up as he needed to concentrate on rolling a cigarette. Lounge lizard? Couch potato? Perish the thought!

A lounge lizard is a phrase meaning that someone is lazy, like a lizard, because the person is sitting on a couch or armchair.

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