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
Foma	fah-MAH	Russian
Hrei&Eth;Arr	-	Ancient Scandinavian
Macarena	mah-kah-RE-nah	Spanish
Absolon	ab-so-LAWN	French
Costache	kos-TAH-ke	Romanian
VÁClav	-	Czech, Slovak