| 短语 | swing the lead |
| 释义 | swing the lead BrEto avoid work by pretending to be ill〔装病〕逃避工作（责任）⇒there's not enough room to swing a cat at ROOM¹ (5) swing the lead Brit. informal malinger; shirk one's duty 〈英, 非正式〉装病; 逃避责任。 [ORIGIN: with nautical allusion to the lump of lead suspended by a string, slowly lowered to ascertain the depth of water.] ˌswing the ˈleadold-fashionedBrEinformalusually used in the progressive tenses通常用于进行时to pretend to be ill/sick when in fact you are not, especially to avoid work装病偷懒I don't think there's anything wrong with her—she's just swinging the lead.我认为她没有什么病，只不过是在装病偷懒而已。The lead was a weight at the bottom of a line that sailors used to measure how deep water was when the ship was near land. ‘Swinging the lead’ was thought to be an easy task, and came to mean avoiding hard work.*lead 是船靠近陆地时水手测量水深用的水铊。swinging the lead 被认为是件轻松的工作，逐渐变成“逃避干重活”的意思。 |
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