throw a sickie

短语

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词形变化

threw a sickie throwing a sickie thrown a sickie throws a sickie 三单 throws a sickie throwing a sickie 现在分词 threw a sickie 过去式 thrown a sickie 过去式 thrown a sickie 过去分词

别名

chuck a sickie

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To take a day off from work for ill health (either real or feigned).

    澳大利亚 新西兰 英国 俚语

    2005, Callum G. Brown, The Unconverted and the Conversion, Jan N. Bremmer, Wout J. van Bekkum, Arie L. Molendijk (editors), Paradigms, Poetics, and Politics of Conversion: Gender Relations in the Salvation Narrative in Britain: 1800-1960, page 190, It is like throwing a ‘sickie’ in Britain today — you can sign-off work on your own say-so for sick benefit for up to five days.