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Lie on bed perhaps being this (4,4)

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I believe the answer is:

bone idle

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'this' is the definition.
The answer and definition are not the same part of speech.

'lie on bed perhaps' is the wordplay.
'perhaps' is an anagram indicator.
'lie'+'on'+'bed'='lieonbed'
'lieonbed' anagrammed gives 'BONE-IDLE'.

'being' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for bone idle that I've seen before include "Very, lazy, almost ossified" , "Utterly lazy, won't do a tap" , "Extremely inactive" , "Altogether lazy, in an ossified way" , "Constitutionally lazy" .)

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