throw a sickie en · VERB
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(Australia, New-Zealand, UK, slang) To take a day off from work for ill health (either real or feigned).
Do not ‘throw a sickie’ just because things get tough. Experience shows that running away from your problems will not solve anything.
2011, Gererd Dixie, The Ultimate Teaching Manual: A Route to Success for Beginning Teachers, page 187:2005, 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.
Hogie said, “Listen, I′m throwing a sickie. I don′t need to be there until opening day tomorrow. The staff don′t arrive till then anyway so as long as I'm in early I can′t see a problem.”
1997, Nicholas Blincoe, Jello Salad, page 49:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| threw a sickie | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| throws a sickie | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| thrown a sickie | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| throwing a sickie | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| chuck a sickie | alternative | lexicographic |
Synonyms
pull a sickie (claim a sick day)
Translations (1)
mi whakangehengehe (to feign illness so to take time off work)