swing the lead

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To avoid work, especially by pretending to be ill; to shirk, to malinger. intransitive
    — Though he was by no means inclined to help carry a gas-cylinder on a pole, while watching the working party fall in on the road that night, Bourne felt rather out of it; he felt as though he were swinging the lead.

词形变化

swings the lead present,singular,third-person swinging the lead participle,present swung the lead participle,past swung the lead past
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