not to do a stroke
- Fuente de la expresión
- German/English Dictionary of Idioms
- Estructura completa
- sb does not do a stroke
- Variantes
- not to lift a finger / not to do a [tap/hand's turn]
- Contexto
- After that fevered night Lennan went to his studio at the usual hour and naturally did not do a stroke of work. He was even obliged to send away his model. The fellow had been his hairdresser, but, getting ill, and falling on dark days, one morning had come to the studio, to ask with manifest shame if his head were any good.
- Tipo de fuente
- Libro
- Autor
- John Galsworthy
- Título de la fuente
- The Dark Flower
- Año
- 2010
- Web
- https://books.google.de/books?id=9XI-0JlLTlMC&pg=PA322&dq=%22not+do+a+stroke%22&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwirhKypl-vYAhVC-6QKHfoOCO8Q6AEIZDAI#v=onepage&q=%22not%20do%20a%20stroke%22&f=false
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Especialidad
- Marca dialectal
- General
- Frecuencia
- Raro