goldbrick

Real work started to seem like a life sentence, so he dealt with it by becoming a goldbrick.

"Have you seen what's left of the Goldbrick?"

"Goldbrick", as slang, may also refer to a lazy or slow person.

"Is it the business with the Number One engine from Goldbrick?"

I was getting goldbrick looks from the men working at their desks, so I went back to my cubicle.

The term gold brick or goldbrick can refer to:

She's a goldbrick.

The Goldbrick (1943)

Goldbrick (2003)

To the extent that freeloaders defect, beg off and goldbrick, we can grumble and retaliate - but not lay down the burden.

Kajiyama and Morikawa formed Goldbrick in 2003.

Dollard was a major-league goldbrick: ignored calls in his zone, took unauthorized leaves, put in for unjustified overtime.

(alternate title: "The Goldbrick")

He had been helped by Dr. Stadium, who would stand at the foot of his bed and provoke him: "You're nothing but a damned goldbrick, Gordon."

Laziness, without the overlay of stinginess, appeared in such words as dillydallier, lotus-eater, goldbrick and, one of my favorite Americanisms, lollygagger.

The metal sculpture of Beetle Bailey, the ultimate Army goldbrick, reposing on his bed, head on his pillow, is still swaying in the museum in Boca Raton.

"Some headquarters goldbrick sent you out here to poke around and count paper clips, but if you think you can talk that way to me and get away with it-" "Calm yourself, Major!

In January and February 2009, Chicago's Walkabout Theater Company and Collaboraction premiered a stage adaptation of Langford's Goldbrick that featured a live band, two actors and video projections.

The 68-year-old Mr. Walker, who graduated from the University of Missouri in 1948 with a degree in the humanities, said the idea for a statue of the Army's classic goldbrick had come from the university's alumni association.

I treasure that ball like a goldbrick, till one day when I was tossin it aroun in the yard, a big ole dog come up an grap it outta the air an chewed it up.

There'd been plenty of oil pressure m that engine when it blew loose from the Goldbrick, which meant the reservoir in the oil cooler had been pretty full, and the sand around the crater looked like the backyard of a filling station.