swing the lead
verbDefinitions
To avoid work, especially by pretending to be ill
To avoid work, especially by pretending to be ill; to shirk, to malinger.
- Though he was by no means inclined to help carry a gas-cylinder on a pole, while watching the working party fall in on the road that night, Bourne felt rather out of it; he felt as though he were swinging the lead.
- I said, ‘Well, how d'you like having to do some work for a change, instead of swinging the lead at Fort Hommet?’
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