do-nothing stool n.
(US black) the buttocks, the posterior.
Hist. of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America (1925) 450: It was impossible for her to sit on the ‘do nothing stool.’ Wherever she went she just had to do something that brought the people into organized activity. | ||
How to Win and Hold a Husband 58: [She] thought that marriage entitled a woman to sit down on the do-nothing stool for the balance of her life . | ||
Drylongso 16: Way back there in the slavery days [...] there was some folks that would kick this Tom dead in his do-nothing stool. [Ibid.] 168: She would rather sit on her do-nothing-stool and take all that what-I-might-say. | ||
SDropped Threads 27: To many of them think a wedding ring gives them the right to flop down on the do-nothing stool, get fat and eat onions. | ||
How to Clear Your Path to Peace and Happiness n.p.: Because we are scared and will not get up off our do-nothing-stool and do what we are given the gift to do. |