throw a sickie

English

Alternative forms

chuck a sickie

Verb

throw a sickie (third-person singular simple present throws a sickie, present participle throwing a sickie, simple past threw a sickie, past participle thrown a sickie)

(slang, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To take a day off from work for ill health (either real or feigned).
- 1997, Nicholas Blincoe, Jello Salad‎, page 49:
  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.”
- 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.
- 2011, Gererd Dixie, The Ultimate Teaching Manual: A Route to Success for Beginning Teachers‎, page 187:
  Do not ‘throw a sickie’ just because things get tough. Experience shows that running away from your problems will not solve anything.

Synonyms

(claim a sick day): pull a sickie, see also Thesaurus:shirk

Translations

to feign illness so to take time off work

Maori: whakangehengehe

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