swing the lead

(British & Australian old-fashioned)

to pretend to be ill so that you do not have to work (usually in continuous tenses) And is she genuinely ill or is she just swinging the lead?

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Jamar	jə-MAHR	African American
Bakr	-	Arabic
Warner	WAHR-nər	English
Dubravko	-	Croatian, Serbian
Rusul	-	Arabic
Karola	KAW-ro-law (Hungarian), kah-RO-lah (German)	Hungarian, German