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
Loretta	lə-RET-ə (English), lo-RET-tah (Italian)	English, Italian
AoibhÍN	EE-veen	Irish
Dayton	DAY-tən	English
Alicia	a-LEE-thya (Spanish), a-LEE-sya (Latin American Spanish), ə-LIS-yə (English), ə-LIS-ee-ə (English), ə-LISH-ə (English), ə-LEE-shə (English)	Spanish, English
Tau	-	Southern African, Tswana, Sotho
Sameer (2)	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati