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
Hrothgar	-	Anglo-Saxon (Latinized)
Millard	['miləd]
Jozefo	yo-ZE-fo	Esperanto
NjÁLl	-	Norse Mythology, Ancient Scandinavian, Icelandic
ČRtomir	-	Slovene
Ambrosius	-	Ancient Greek (Latinized)