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Topic: Can you be "a lazybones"?

Anonymous A started this topic 9 months (2009-07-03 01:40:?? UTC) ago (#28,784):

This is some sort of expression where the grammar is not playing by the normal rules, right?

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Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 9 months (2009-07-03 01:50:?? UTC) ago, 9 minutes later (#172,025):

Yes. "Lazybones" is both singular and plural. The "s" is part of the base noun, and does not modify the word's plurality.