| 单词 | to swing the lead |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto swing the lead b. to swing the lead: to idle, to shirk; to malinger. slang. Hence in similar phrases and in combinations, as lead-swing n. and v. intransitive., lead-swinger n., lead-swinging n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from action [verb (intransitive)] > avoid > avoid duty, work, or exertion feignc1300 lurk1551 slug1642 skulk1781 malinger1820 mike1838 shirk1853 slinker1880 scrimshank1882 pike1889 scow1901 spruce1916 to swing the lead1917 bludge1919 to dodge the column1919 skive1919 to screw off1943 to do a never1946 to fuck off1946 to dick off1948 the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > [noun] > avoiding an action or condition > avoiding duty, work, or exertion > one who skulkc1320 loundererc1425 old soldier1722 malingerer1785 skulker1785 shirker1799 shirk1818 slink1824 schemer1843 sconcer1843 scrimshanker1882 scrimshank1886 sooner1892 Weary Willie1896 slacker1898 slackster1901 sugarer1904 work-shy1904 gold brick1905 tired Tim (also Timothy)1906 lead-swinger1917 piker1917 gold-bricker1919 slinker1919 poler1938 skiver1941 the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > [noun] > avoiding an action or condition > avoiding duty, work, or exertion blanching1642 skulking1805 soldiering1840 malingery1841 malingering1861 old soldierism1866 old soldiering1867 scrimshanking1881 shirking1899 gold-bricking1918 lead-swinging1930 skive1958 skiving1958 scowing1959 the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > [adjective] > that avoids or shuns > avoiding duty, work, or exertion kid glove1856 malingering1862 scrimshanking1881 shirking1883 clock-watching1889 shirky1897 lead-swinging1930 skiving1959 the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > [noun] > avoiding an action or condition > avoiding duty, work, or exertion > opportunity for or an act of come-off1678 mike1825 shirk1863 gold-bricking1901 scrimshank1903 lead-swing1952 skive1958 skive1980 1917 To-Day 6 Jan. 243/3 It is evident that he had ‘swung the lead’ (using Army phrase) until he got his discharge. 1918 B. K. Adams Let. 25 Jan. in Amer. Spirit 71 Lead-swingers are those that stall along, doing as little as they possibly can, hoping the war will be over before they finish. 1918 Twenty-seconds' Echo 1 June The Swingers of the Lead. 1918 E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms Swinging the Lead, a slang expression among soldiers being the equivalent of telling the tale. 1919 War Slang in Athenæum 25 July 664/1 ‘To swing the lead’, to malinger, go sick, with the object of escaping an irksome duty. 1922 C. E. Montague Disenchantment iv. 56 Then grey hairs should be a lot of use to you..when you want to get swinging the lead. 1927 A. Brosnan At Number 15 i. 30 ‘If they wanted a three-man job done they had to put forty on to it to make sure it was done.’ ‘And so they did. That's organisation, that is. Of course, there was some lead-swingers.’ 1927 Daily Express 2 Mar. 3/4 He said he..had been ‘swinging the lead’ for the purpose of getting a permanent pension. 1930 S. Beckett Whoroscope 1 The vile old Copernican lead-swinging son of a sutler! 1939 R. Campbell Flowering Rifle ii. 60 It was not we who lead-swung to the Pities, When half the loveliest of our ancient cities Were in the clouds rebuilt. 1940 J. B. Priestley Postscripts 70 A wary..old soldier, a lead-swinger, a dodger of the column. 1952 M. Allingham Tiger in Smoke iv. 77 He went sick... It was so hopeless, so damned silly and forlorn as a lead-swing that in the end he got away with it. 1957 A. Grimble Return to Islands ii. 32 Their number was not without its natural quota of cheerful leadswingers. 1968 Manch. Guardian Weekly 12 Sept. 9 Mr. Crossman..insisted that ‘lead swinging’ among the unemployed was confined to a very small minority. 1969 Daily Tel. 8 Jan. 26/1 Overall absenteeism in the coal~fields is running slightly higher than last year... Out of this total, 4·66 per cent. is classified as voluntary absenteeism (‘lead-swinging’). 1972 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 12 Feb. 4/1 The mayor of Victoria accuses the four Greater Victoria members of the legislature of lead-swinging. 1973 Daily Tel. 29 Aug. 6/3 ‘It would soon put a stop to lead-swingers who take a few days off to paint the house or watch cricket,’ the doctor added. < as lemmas |
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