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
Flannery	FLAN-ə-ree	English (Rare)
Matthieu	ma-TYU	French
Roland	RO-lənd (English), ro-LAWN (French), RO-lawnd (Hungarian)	English, French, German, Swedish, Dutch, Hungarian, Medieval French
Kaylyn	KAY-lin	English (Modern)
Tenzin	-	Tibetan, Bhutanese
Jodi	JO-dee	English