throw a sickie

Verb

 * 1)  To take a day off from work for ill health (either real or feigned).
 * 2) * 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, |throws|throwing|threw+a+sickie%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=GeCpN7S1am&sig=ANBv2jE7Wyq5isomYNitpnwHACo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=J7mCUNmkFc-YiAe4iYCICQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22throw|throws|throwing|threw%20a%20sickie%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false 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.
 * 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.

Synonyms

 * , see also Thesaurus:shirk

Translations

 * Maori: whakangehengehe