honey do list
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- noun
- /ˈhʌni du lɪst/
- Informal
:
lista de tareas
- Every Saturday, I check off tasks from my wife's honey do list around the house.
Examples
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Things like turkey hunting, fishing, or working on that growing honey-do list can all push deer season to the back of a hunter's mind.
Blog text (33) -
I even did some stuff he kept promising to do but never got around to... he's had the same honey-do list now for two years, so I just threw it away and started doing it myself.
Blog text (22) -
My weekend plans include tackling the items on my honey do list.
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He asked me what chores I had on my honey do list for the day.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally built: 'honey' (term of endearment) + 'do' (tasks to perform) + 'list' (record of items) yields a list of tasks for one’s partner. This follows the familiar English pattern like 'to-do list' and is directly derivable by a B1 learner who knows the constituent words, though it carries a mild cultural/colloquial nuance.
Etymology
The compound honey do list comes from the pet name honey, the verb do, and the word list. One partner would write a list of jobs for their honey to do, so today it means 'a list of household tasks' someone is asked to complete.