use your loaf
loaf
verb[ I ]
 informaluk /ləʊf/ us /loʊf/
to avoid activity, especially work: 懒散；（尤指）偷懒
Stop loafing (about/around) and get on with cleaning the windows!别偷懒了，赶快把窗户擦干净！

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to spend time doing nothing or very little
lazeI can’t wait to go on holiday and just laze about on the beach.
have time to killWe had some time to kill, so we went to the museum.
have time on your handsShe should be able to volunteer at the animal shelter - she has time on her hands since graduating from uni.
be at a loose endUK He was at a loose end when his parents left on holiday.
wait aroundWe were just waiting around while our friends ran inside to get tickets.
hang around (somewhere)I'll just hang around until you get here.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Avoiding action
abrogate
abrogation
avoid
avoid something like the plagueidiom
avoidance
elude
end-run
eschew
evader
evasion
fiddle
insure
shirk
short circuit
shrink from something
shy away from something
sit on your arseidiom
steer
welch
Welsh

loaf | American Dictionary

loaf
noun[ C ]
us/loʊf/pluralloavesus/loʊvz/

loafnoun[C] (BREAD)

bread that is shaped and baked in a single piece and can be sliced for eating:
Get a loaf of white bread from the corner store.
loaf
verb[ I ]
 infmlus/loʊf/

loafverb[I] (AVOID WORK)

to avoid activity, esp. work:
He just wanted to loaf for a while before beginning the new job.

Examples of loaf

loaf
A single person received seven one-pound loaves as a weekly ration.
Moreover, most of the loaves produced were smaller than their supermarket counterparts.
A random sample of 25 loaves from a day's output had a total mass of 12 554 grams.
Here, batch production is involved: the aircraft produces batches of seats travelling between city pairs, just as a bakery might produce batches of loaves.
However, on a large scale, it is possible to bake thousands of loaves a day in highly automated factories with an absolute minimum of staff.
Miraculously produced loaves and fishes will grow stale and spoil in the same way as those which have a more ordinary genesis.
They may reduce supervision costs by instituting group self-monitoring, with employees engaging in 'mutual monitoring' to minimise 'social loafing'.
Thus, a married soldier would lose his right of residence in one of the city's eight barracks and the daily ration of bread (four loaves) to which he was entitled.
They checked the weight and content of individual loaves of bread on a regular basis and kept an eye out for hoarders and price gougers when supplies were tight.
Once a loaf of bread is obtained by one individual or family, that loaf of bread is no longer available to others.
Moisture content, the loaf could be weighed once it came out of the pan, then dried out and re-weighed.
He must go to the baker shop and buy a loaf of bread.
The utilitarian may argue that everything is imperfect and that half a loaf is better than no bread.
Refers to baked loaves which were mass manufactured in the 70s.
There is also a letter written to the superintendent in 1923 which, complains of girls ' ' loafing ' ' or being truant in the railroad depot.
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