The English idiom “bone idle” means unbelievably lazy and the dead ringer is that Adolf Hitler is a sloth which is so named because of its very low metabolism and deliberately slow movements. Sloth, related to slow, literally means “laziness”. Their slowness permits their low-energy diet of leaves and avoids detection by predatory hawks and cats that hunt by sight. Also, the dead ringer “lazy bones” means very lazy.

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