Below you will read proverbs about idleness. Each of them has its own separate meaning. All of them are called to bring up industriousness in children. Proverbs with the word idleness is a set of words and instructive phraseological units that urge all people to get to work.
- Only the sky is smoking without business.
- Idle and the machine rusts.
- Sits idle and looks into an empty corner.
- Without work, the day will be a year.
- Without work and the car rusts.
- Without work and the oven is cold.
- A loafer is hunting to deceive anyone.
- The mouse that knows only one loophole is carefree.
- A cheerful head lives through its sleeves.
- The windmill and the idler woman grind tirelessly.
- Is everything hunting to lie down? Don’t look into the oven.
- You can’t do all the work.
- Idleness is the mother of vice.
- Where is he? I went to give hay dogs. It would be better if I got down to business!
- Cases like soot is white.
- The case of idleness.
- The mind gives the cause, and in idleness, crap rises into the head.
- Business time gives the mind, and idleness creeps into my head.
- Day and night - and the day away: and call back.
- They overslept before lunch, got up and began to dine.
- Bad business is not tricky.
- We live and we chew bread, we sleep and we smoke the sky.
- We do not live people and die not parents.
- And the mustache does not blow.
- From sand rope to twist.
- A stone lying in moss overgrows.
- Whips whacks yes beats dogs.
- He who looks into the sky sits without bread.
- Lies on its side and looks at Oka.
- People for the cause, and lounger for idleness.
- Small business is better than large idleness.
- For idleness and laziness, one day is great, and for good deeds - the five-year plan is small.
- Ours spun, and yours slept.
- Do not look for a backlog to great idleness.
- Do not teach idleness, teach needlework.
- There is no such thing as a loafer is not tired.
- No firewood, no splinter, but lives without a gilt.
- From idleness, nonsense profits, in labor the will is tempered.
- From laziness a person is sick, and from labor heals.
- There is nothing to do and the cockroach climbs on the side.
- Put off idleness, don't put off business.
- Under a lying stone and water does not flow.
- Helping someone who has nothing to do.
- Monday, don’t mess around.
- Went to business, and returned with idleness.
- Hands on hips, eyes on the ceiling.
- Bored day to night if nothing to do.
- Stagnant water turns sour.
- Though pounding in a stump, if only to spend a day.
- The black earth does not like white hands.
Each complete proverb perfectly reflects the identity of the Slavic people. A small thing is better than a big idleness. The meaning of the proverb is that you need to work a little bit regularly instead of wasting time in vain.