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
Ctibor	-	Czech
Ruuben	ROO:-ben	Finnish
Thaddeus	THAD-ee-əs (English)	English, Biblical, Biblical Latin
Kir	KEER	Russian
Marianela	-	Spanish
Dixon	['diksn]