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Swing the lead

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  1. 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."

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